Baird Auditorium

10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.

Dedicated to Spencer Fullerton Baird, first curator at the Smithsonian Institution, on November 16, 1971. Previously referred to simply as the “auditorium of the Museum of Natural History.”

The auditorium served as a home to the Left Bank Jazz Society of Washington, D.C. from 1969 to 1970.

Recordings by New England Jazz Repertory Orchestra (1974), Rose Murphy (1982), Kirk Lightsey (1985), Bill Kirchner (1990), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1992), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1993), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1995), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1997), Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (1998), Ravish Momin (2005).

Bibliography

Barrett, Larry. “Jazz Quintet Starts Slow, Then Grooves.” Washington Star, November 30, 1970.

Barrett, Larry. “Silver Gets Jazz Season Off to Gracious Start.” Washington Star, September 21, 1970.

Barrett, Larry. “Benson Scores Heavily in Concert.” Washington Star, September 28, 1970.

Holland, Bill. “Jazz Sextet Wobbles with 2 Regulars Out.” Washington Star, December 29, 1969.

Holland, Bill. “McCoy Tyner’s Group Soothes Injured Ears.” Washington Star, March 2, 1970.

Holland, Bill. “Left Bank Jazz Concert Successful at Museum.” Washington Star, April 27, 1970.

Stokes, W. Royal. “Kidding Around Jazz.” Washington Post, September 23, 1984.

Stokes, W. Royal. “Smithsonian Jazz.” Washington Post, November 21, 1983.

Stokes, W. Royal. “Jazz Repertory Ensemble Plays Johnson, Waller.” Washington Post, May 15, 1979.

West, Hollie I. “Jazz Trumpet at the Smithsonian.” Washington Post, October 27, 1969.

West, Hollie I. “Dissonance: Music.” Washington Post, June 9, 1970.

West, Hollie I. “‘Funky, Soulful.’” Washington Post, November 30, 1970.

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