JAZZ

The International Jazz Hall of Fame will be built in Kansas City, Mo., the former stamping grounds of such late jazz greats as Count Basie and Charlie (Bird) Parker. The announcement was made Saturday by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, national chairman of the International Jazz Hall of Fame, and Mayor Richard Berkley. The $4.8-million project, the first-phase of which is set for completion in November, 1990, will consist of existing structures and new construction at 22nd and Vine streets, an area that was home to many 24-hour-a-day jazz clubs in the late ‘20s. The Hall of Fame will include the Count Basie Academy of Performing Arts, the Mahalia Jackson Academy of Gospel Music and the Parker-Gillespie Institute of Jazz Masters.