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Jazz Town | Metheny unifies his sound
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 9:00 AMGuitarist Pat Metheny has been touring with his new Unity Band for months, racking up critical raves for his interplay with tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Ben Williams and drummer Antonio Sanchez.
Jazz Town | Crowd your calendar with music
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 8:13 PMThis week’s events will be a load of fun, but before we get to those let’s talk about other events on the horizon. For starters, there’s the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s season, highlighted by a move to Helzberg Hall at t...
Jazz Town | Free Jazz Winterlude comes to JCCC this weekend
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 6:37 PMSometimes the most thoughtful gift arrives after the holidays. This season, it’s a big gift of jazz from Johnson County Community College, the Jazz Winterlude, with a well-chosen lineup of local and world-stage talent. And this year, it re...
Jazz Town | New book ‘The Jazz Standards’ examines familiar tunes
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 6:58 PMWe hear enough about the so-called Great American Songbook and its sway over jazz. And there are plenty of books about those songs, but what about the rest of the jazz repertoire? Ted Gioia’s new book, “The Jazz Standards,” tri...
Jazz Town | Stefon Harris, John Pizzarelli display the personalities of jazz
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 9:00 PMWe have two major jazz concerts this weekend, and on the surface, they couldn’t be more different. The Folly Theater has singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli on Saturday, a man dedicated to making the old songs live again for our time and the ...
Jazz Town | Winterlude warms season’s heart with varied jazz offerings
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:22 PMThis week’s top jazz event is, without doubt, the Jazz Winterlude at Johnson County Community College — a weekend of solid, varied jazz programming featuring two wonderful headliners: the Brubeck Brothers Quartet on Friday and Poncho ...
Jazz Town | Gerry Mulligan’s music inspires KC Jazz Orchestra
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:00 PMIt makes perfect sense that the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra would open its season Friday with an evening of music by Gerry Mulligan. The band’s musical director, Kerry Strayer, is a fellow baritone saxophonist, composer and arranger — ...
Jazz Town | Jazz is trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s main course
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 10:15 PMTwenty-plus years ago, the poetic trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who comes to the Gem Theater on Saturday, was one of those “young lions” who were bringing new blood and new attention to acoustic jazz. Some of those lions faded away, b...
Jazz Town | Karrin Allyson, Dave Scott back to perform with old friends
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7:23 PMThis time of year, we look for friends whose paths have taken them away from the Midwest to come home for the holidays. And some of those friends are enlivening the jazz calendar this week. Besides, it’s always a little celebration when s...
Jazz Town | Anat Cohen singlehandedly offers a world of music
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 6:28 PMAward-winning multireedist Anat Cohen is on a musical journey around all the world’s styles. This expansive journey, which brings her and her quartet to the Folly Theater on Friday, had its earthly starting point in Tel Aviv, Israel, but t...
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