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As more than 500,000 hip-hop fans watched Snoop Dogg perform “Doggy Dogg World” in a rap battle with DMX on Instagram on Wednesday, July...

I was surprised to encounter several jazz musicians at the Sprint Center as I reviewed a James Taylor concert for The Kansas City Star in...

Deep Blue Organ Trio achieved a modicum of acclaim before disbanding.  The old-school organist Chris Foreman and the accomplished drummer ...

*Rashida Phillips of the American Jazz Museum chatted with Mike Shanin on KCPT’s Ruckus . *Five musicians representing the Kansas City ...

Lonnie McFadden indulges his Vegas-style inclinations in the embedded video.  The multi-faceted showman dubbed Mr. Kansas City performs at...

At the conclusion of the free concert by Ryan Keberle & Catharsis at the J.C. Nichols Auditorium at the National World War I Museum an...

Even though I’d heard Havilah Bruders perform several times with the roots-rock band Cadillac Flambé and I’d listened to her 2017 jazz al...

*Ernest Melton is featured in a brief video profile created by Google. *Joe Dimino captured footage of Johnson County Community Colle...

The ticket I buy at the box office of the Folly Theater on Thursday for a concert by the Joshua Redman Quartet will almost surely be mon...

The weekly Jim Lower Big Band session recently migrated from Parker & Vine to Black Dolphin .  The ensemble performs at the latter clu...

*The story behind a 1953 photograph of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Roy Haynes is told by Peter Facini of The New...

Kerry Politzer , an exemplary representative of Portland’s thriving jazz scene, will perform at Black Dolphin at Wednesday, March 6, an...

The extraordinary contributions of Camila Meza played a large role in making a show by Ryan Keberle & Catharsis at Black Dolphin my t...

*Zach Albetta interviewed Sam Wisman for his Working Drummer podcast. *Bobby McFerrin and Pablo Ziegler and among the bookings in the...

The band dropped out as Matt Otto took a solo on a bracing version of Ornette Coleman’s “Congeniality” at Black Dolphin on Thur...

Steve Cardenas usually returns to his old stomping grounds in Kansas City during the holiday season.  The New York based guitarist will pe...

The New York based saxophonist Adam Larson will perform at Green Lady Lounge on Sunday, December 2, and at Black Dolphin on Monday, Decemb...

*The most recent round of ugly legal woes hobbling the Mutual Musicians Foundation are detailed by Mark Davis for The Kansas...

Kait Dunton , a Los Angeles based pianist and former member of Snarky Puppy, will perform with trioKAIT at Black Dolphin on Thursday, Novem...

John Petrucelli likens his sound to current jazz heavyweights like Donny McCaslin.  The lofty comparison isn’t unwarranted.  Petrucelli, t...