Plastic Sax

*Oscar "Lucky" Wesley of The Scamps died March 27th. The Star has the story . *The Jazz In the Woods festival has announced its ...

I've never traveled so far nor worked as hard to attend a concert. Over five thousand miles from our Midwestern hometowns, I caught Pat ...

One of the small joys of living in Kansas City is the possibility of a serendipitous encounter with Jazzbo. I've seen the man performin...

*Congressman Emanuel Cleaver blogs that he "spent a sleepless night on the phone to Paris securing Charlie Parker’s plastic sax for Ka...

I like to pretend that Kansas-based guitarist Andy McKee is a jazz musician. Who, after all, wouldn't want to claim ownership of such ...

*Stan Kessler is interviewed by Hunter Long of the Black House Improvisors' Collective. Their illuminating discussion is quite entertai...

I love listening to old men tell stories. As I noted on February 26, I was stunned and thrilled to discover that Ben Kynard was scheduled t...