[Dixielandjazz] R.I.P. Myra Taylor - Kansas City Star, December 9, 2011

[Bill Haesler]

Robert Ringwald posted the following:

> Kansas City Jazz Icon Myra Taylor Dies
> by Timothy Finn
> Kansas City Star, December 9, 2011
which sums her up thus:

> Myra Taylor, one of the final living links to Kansas City's heyday as a jazz mecca,
> died Friday afternoon in Kansas City. She was 94.
and 
> She can count hers as one name that deserves as much recognition and respect as most
> of the others.
> -30

Dear Bob,
Another interesting link to Kansas City, who most of us had never heard of.
Thank you.
And yes (as we are becoming accustomed to) there is a fine, but minor, selection of her music on YouTube.
Start with 
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moy1dR55pnY
then check out the other links.

Its session mate, "Spider and the Fly" from 31 October 1946 (mentioned in the obit) can be heard here:
   http://musparade.com/album/VA/Kansas+City+Jumps+vol.3
and 
   http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=0ca2ac4
but my Mac will not let me download them for 'research purposes'.
8>(
Very kind regards,
Bill.