The folks behind the Knoxville Jazz Festival have a documentary in the works about Knoxville's jazz history. (MP staff writer Chris Barrett has been pitching in on the project.)
"In the 1950s, jazz was the soundtrack of a nascent Civil Rights movement. It was in Knoxville that racially integrated bands performed, that a public library opened its doors to its black citizens and that an area high school became the proving ground for the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education. It was also in Knoxville that a bomb was tossed at a Louis Armstrong concert."
Want to help out? You can donate funds to the project. And here's a preview of the doc itself, Living Jazz in a Small Southern City:
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