About Ruthelle's by Cliff Baldwin

Music for the show - About Ruthelle's - Paintings From The New Kansas City Jazz Hall Of Fame at Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Each piece corresponds with a portrait in the show depicting a KC jazz great. A detail of the painting is included with each tune.

The KC Jazz Hall of Fame will be housed at Ruthelle's Café and Club, a new music, barbecue and art center in the heart of the Jazz District at 18th and Vine. Ruthelle Winkfield was a hair salon owner and sometime jazz singer. Adam Jones has renovated the building and is working with prominent architects, artists, musicians, chefs and the community at large to bring another valuable asset back to life.

Special thanks go to Chuck Haddix, Director of the Marr Sound Archive at the University of Missouri at Kansas City for the extraordinary jazz history research and for making this possible with cuts from the archive.

Tracklist

1.	George E. Lee - St. James Infirmary	3:17

2.	Julia Lee - King Size Papa	2:40

3.	Andy Kirk - Until The Real Thing Comes Along	3:01

4.	Bennie Moten - Moten's Swing	3:21

5.	Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump	3:03

6.	Walter Page - Squabblin'	3:02

7.	Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete	2:49

8.	Claude "Fiddler" Williams - How High The Moon	5:51

9.	Pete Johnson - 627 Stomp	3:06

10.	Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie	2:49

11.	Lester Young - Lester Leaps In	3:13

12.	Mary Lou Williams - Lady Who Swings The Band	2:45

13.	Ben Webster - Tenderly	3:02

14.	Buster Smith - Kansas City Riffs	5:14

15.	Jay McShann - Hootie Blues	2:58

16.	Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite	2:53

17.	Priscilla Bowman - Hands Off	2:48

18.	Bettye Miller - Everything Must Change	4:38

19.	Buster Smith - Blue Devil Blues	2:49

20.	Claude "Fiddler" Williams - Walkin' And Swingin'	2:43

Credits

released November 5, 2021

Marr Sound Archives, Miller Nichols Library, UMKC.

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