Plastic Sax

The New Red Onion Jazz Babies have been gigging around Kansas City since before a teenage Plastic Sax had even heard of Bix Beiderbecke. T...

*Will Friedwald covered the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Harlem. Robert Glasper, Vanessa Rubin, Rashied Ali and other performed. Here...

I missed you yesterday at the Lincoln Cemetery memorial service for Charlie Parker. I'm not sure why attendance was dramatically lower...

So many outstanding jazz musicians call Kansas City home that a first-rate ensemble like The Jazz Disciples can fail to garner an appropria...

*Joe Klopus provides a great piece about New Jazz Order's weekly gig at Harling's. An accompanying video is very worthwhile. *Mil...

Per my request, Google bombards me with web postings about Kansas City jazz. For the past couple months, a disproportionate number emanate ...

It's been almost two years since Jay McShann passed. I still mourn the loss. McShann's music is eternal, of course, but the jazz ...