Plastic Sax

* Eldar is booked for a five-night run at Jardine's November 16-20. Shows will be at 6:00 and 8:30. *Steve Paul offers a glass-half-fu...

If you prefer Pat Metheny when he works in a conventional jazz format, you'll want to catch Mike Moreno at Jardine's tonight. The ...

*A most unusual jazz performance transpired last weekend at the Kansas City Irish Fest. Eric Rigler of Bad Haggis is a piper, alright, but...

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...