The exhibits on Duke Ellington, Charley “Bird” Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong alone are worth the trip for jazz fans; Listen to more than 100 of the greatest jazz recordings; that’s not boasting when you can claim Bennie Moten, the great Charley “Bird” Parker, Big Joe Turner and Count Basie as Kansas City mainstays–each shaped, innovated or helped popularize jazz into the mainstream of American culture; interact with several exhibits and watch a short film on the history of Jazz in Kansas city; also acquired the nation’s largest collection of Jazz films from the archives of University of Missouri – Kansas City