(Click event for more details) Decatur County Middle School serves students in grades 5-8 in Decatur County. DCMS opened to students for the first time in August 2000. Decatur County Middle School was established as a consolidation of students from Decaturville Elementary and Parsons Junior High School.
Famous Negro Leaguers are on each base with legendary Satchel Paige at the mound. Paige, of course, grew up in Kansas City â not far from 18th and Vine. The velvety saxophone playing Kansas City's Charlie Parker pipes over a speaker, drawing visitors into the Jazz Museum. The first glass case holds a shiny white saxophone that Charlie Parker once played at the famous Massey Hall concert in Toronto.
These included cornetists Buddy Bolden and King Oliver, cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, pianist Jelly Roll Morton among others. Jazz soon spread from New Orleans to other parts of the country. A New Orleans Jazz band led by Fate Marable played on riverboats plying on the Mississippi River.y the middle of the 19th century, jazz grew in popularity and its sound became influenced by musicians with formal training and classical backgrounds. In the late 1890s a musical style evolved from St Louis called Ragtime.