Plastic Sax

After watching the first several selections of the NBA draft on Thursday, I turned off ESPN and headed to the Westport Coffe...

My Favorite Color , the tenth album by the Nebraska-based vocalist Jackie Allen , includes material by composers ranging from George Gershw...

*KC Jazz Lark reports on last week's Jazz Blogger's Tour of Kansas City. *Hermon Mehari is part of the Kansas City...

I want my money back. In a noble but flawed effort to present as many musicians associated with Kansas City's jazz scen...

Horace Silver died yesterday.  Two of the beloved musician's connections to Kansas City come immediately to mind.  The late trumpeter ...

*Details about the Mutual Musicians Foundation's “Jazz: No Language Required Bloggers Tour" are available here .  KC...

Delighted to discover that Pharaoh Sanders was performing at Blues Alley during the weekend I was in Washington D.C., I bought...