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* UNESCO Creative City KC honored Marcus Lewis with the 2020 American Music International Innovator Award.  The organization cites Lewis’...

*KCUR reports on the results of the American Jazz Museum’s Charlie Parker Song Contest. *The Brandon Goldberg Trio featuring Logan Rich...

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

*The author of this site is once again manning The Kansas City Jazz Calendar . * The Kansas City Star recommends Deborah Brown’s two D...

*Rashida Phillips is the new Executive Director of the American Jazz Museum.  A press release is excerpted below. *The impetus behind M...

*The creator of Plastic Sax appeared on Marcus Lewis’ Ask a Jazz Dude show. *June’s Jazz Club opened at the location of the former Upto...

I’m not entirely sure what’s on the agenda for my appearance on the 58th episode of the Ask a Jazz Dude show.  (12:10 p.m. CST Monday, No...

* That’s My Jazz , a short documentary in which “Milt Abel II, a world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceas...

1. Exhibit Closed As the saying has it, this is why we can’t have nice things.  Ongoing disarray at the American Jazz Museum...

*The  David Basse Trio and Amber Underwood were featured on KCUR’s Up To Date program. * Jay Sollenberger and Sam Wisman...

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

*Logan Richardson’s Blues People is selected as the third best jazz album of 2018 by The New York Times ’ Giovanni Russonel...

Let’s play a jazz version of the “would you rather” parlor game.  Would you rather receive a cumulative 250 spins a week on ...

The most bracing passage of Brass and Boujee , the new album by the Marcus Lewis Big Band, comes in the final moments of the c...

*An event billed as A Yardbird Homecoming is slated for Friday, August 3.  A complete collection of the Dial Records catalog a...

I’m still marveling at a few of the solos played during the first set of the Marcus Lewis Big Band’s appearance at RecordBar ...

*Sam Zeff of KCUR reports on the latest twists and turns at the American Jazz Museum. * The Kansas City Star ’s Bill Turqu...

Kansas City is home to at least five big bands.  Only the expansive ensemble led by trombonist Marcus Lewis incorporates hip-hop elements ...

*Marcus Lewis is a recipient of a 2018 Generative Performing Artist Award from the Charlotte Street Foundation. *Bill Fris...

* John Scott of the Green Lady Lounge and Deborah Brown, Chuck Haddix and Bobby Watson were guests on KCUR’s Up to Date on...