Plastic Sax

I’ve long believed the only people who use the word “jazzy” without irony are either dullards or sardonic jazz-haters.  So I cringed when ...

*Purnaprajna Bangere spoke to The Kansas City Star about the Purna Loka Ensemble. *The Marcus Lewis Big Band performed a quarantined ...

* Jazziz takes notice of Ernest Melton. *Dan Gailey and his students at the University of Kansas discuss  a recent collaboration with ...

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

*Ernest Melton is featured at the site of Quincy Jones' streaming entertainment startup Quest TV.  The photo that accompan...

Favorite Albums By Kansas City Artists 1. Logan Richardson- Blues People (Plastic Sax review) 2. Peter Schlamb- Electric Ti...

*The Kansas City jazz historian Larry Kopitnik and The Kansas City Star ’s Mark Davis discussed the travails of the Mutual ...

*Ernest Melton participated in The Kansas City Star ’s weekly Star Sessions on Monday.  Here’s his interpretation of “Christm...

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

Ernest Melton has arrived.  After years of raving about the young Kansas City saxophonist without much tangible corroboratio...

* Soul Jazz Fridays , the new album by Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7, was reviewed by KCUR. *Kemet “The Phantom” Coleman wro...

Although the era in which musicians including Kansas City’s Max Groove were promoted by airplay on dozens of terrestrial smooth jazz radio ...

I often cringe when I hear the opening strains of “In a Sentimental Mood.”  The chestnut is played far too often. Houston...

As “Kansas City & All That Jazz” aired on KSHB on September, a friend who listens primarily to punk rock sent me an ent...

A True Story Based On… , the bold, imaginative and vital new album by Dominique Sanders , opens with a skit that features ...

During the first hour of the 18th & Vine Jazz and Blues Festival on October 12, I asked Gerald Dunn, the American Jazz Museum's Dir...