Chuck Haddix
In 1984, Chuck Haddix aka Chuck Haddock joined the staff of KCUR as a jazz producer. The next year, he began producing the Fish Fry.
He is also the director of the Marr Sound Archives, a collection of 350,000 historic sound recordings housed in the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri--Kansas City. Haddix also teaches Kansas City jazz history at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Over the years,Haddixhas contributed to a wide variety of theatrical, recording, video and film projects including“CronkiteRemembers” a biography of WalterCronkite, Robert Altman's “Kansas City” and Merchant-Ivory's “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.” His articles have appeared inDown Beat andLiving Blues Magazine. He is the coauthor of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop–A Historyfor Oxford University Press and author ofBird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parkerfor the University of Illinois Press.
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