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PERFORMANCE: CbQ spontaneous rendition of "All The Things You Are" to start a set of background jazz music at the historic Drum Room in Kansas City...

VIDEO PERSONNEL: Chris Burnett, alto saxophone; Roger Wilder, piano; Jeff Harshbarger, bass; and Brandon Draper, drum set.

HISTORIC VENUE: The Drum Room Restaurant, located in the historic Hilton President Kansas City, is open nightly for dinner and drinks, and daily for lunch. The hotel is in downtown Kansas City, Missouri and is the Official Hotel of the Power & Light Entertainment District. It is just a short walk to the Sprint Center, within walking distance of the Kansas City Convention Center and ideally located across the street from the new H&R Block World Headquarters.

It was the year 1941, the cost of a postage stamp was three cents, the President of the United States was Franklin D Roosevelt, and Pearl Harbor was attacked on the pre-dawn hours of December 7th. The hotel President which opened in 1927 opened the Drum Room.

Imagine looking across the room and seeing such entertainers as Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Benny Goodman. You may have even seen people such as Charles Lindberg, Ben Siegel or Meyer Lansky.

The Drum Room included a bar in the shape of a drum, and a full service restaurant which featured some of the countries hottest touring musicians. It was the age of Cuban cool, a strong influence of Cuban society was sweeping its way across the country, it was Kansas City's place to see and be seen. According to a guest who visited the Drum Room in 1948 "it was just an exciting place to visit, it was the coolest place in town and everyone knew it".

The Drum Room, now an upscale cosmopolitan restaurant & lounge, has re-opened and the atmosphere is just as cool as it was in 1941. Who knows, you just might feel the spirits of the Rat Pack or Duke Ellington when you swing by.

Other celebrity appearances in this historic venue include Sammy Davis Jr., Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, The Marx Brothers and Pasty Cline.

[Drum Room - http://www.drumroomkc.com/]