There s a museum for rock n roll, blues, and now there s one for jazz. The Kansas City Jazz Museum the first United States museum to focus on this medium was created with the help of a Northeastern University professor. Brown, who has taught at NU for 10 years, graduated from Kentucky State with training in ethnomusicality. Along with playing the saxophone, Brown organizes the annual John Coltrane concert.
Music is non-tangible.
It happens live and it s gone, he said. This museum takes the non-tangible and presents it in a tangible form. Most people would answer New Orleans, but the genre has origins in many places, including Kansas City. Brown said he had four goals when creating the museum. The first was to provide a greater awareness and appreciation for jazz as an African-American music, he said.