(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.
Important Bebop Musicians: 1  Charlie Parker â Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker played in many swing bands as a young musician, including those of Jay McShann and Earl Hines. 2  After drummer Jo Jones threw a cymbal at him for playing badly, Parker began to practice obsessively.