Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2018
The cover of our Summer Guide features art by local Gavin Snider. He depicted both Kansas City music legends and current musicians in our Listen Local collection. Grab a Guide at any Johnson County Library location and enjoy illustrations of:
- Kianna Alarid: Lead singer and songwriter of pop band Yes You Are.
- Lester Young, American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. Helped forge the bebop style in the 1930s and 40s.
- Larry Garrett, folk singer-songwriter, guitarist.
- Ada Brown: Blue Singer. Brown was both a pioneer of Kansas City jazz and a founding member of the Negro Actors Guild of America in 1936.
- Marty Hillard, hip-hop artist, Ebony Tusks. Ebony Tusks is one of Kansas City's most hard-hitting hip-hop acts.
- Julia Lee, blues singer and musician. Lee had a string of R&B hits in the 1940s.
- Lupe Gonzalez, musician, bandleader and civic leader.
- Qizhen Liu, cellist. Performs throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician.
- Count Basie: Jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. An unparalleled musical innovator, Basie's music helped define 20th Century jazz and popular music.
- Amado Espinoza, composer, collaborator, maker of custom-made native instruments. Originally from Bolivia, Epinoza's instruments are being played by clients in places as far-flung as France, Spain, Netherlands and South America
- Charlie Parker: Jazz musician and composer. Along with Dizzy Gillespie, this Kansas City-born jazz artist invented bebop.
- Chico Sierra: Singer-songwriter, visual artist, poet.
- Chloe Jacobson: Singer-songwriter. Chloe Jacobson will release her first album of melodic and personal indie-pop this summer.
- Unknown mandolin player, Fishers Gibson Orchestra
- Melba Liston: Jazz instrumentalist and arranger. First noted female jazz trombonist
- Joyce DiDonato, Opera singer and recording artist. A Multi Grammy Award winner of the 2016 Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Joyce and Tony: Live at Wigmore Hall and the 2012 Best Classical Vocal Solo
- Calvin Arsenia, harpist, singer, songwriter, collaborator.
- Sara Teasley, drummer of garage rockers Cave Girls.