The American Jazz Museum Board of Directors has named Rashida Phillips as the Museum’s executive director, beginning January, 2020. Phillips, an active performer and jazz vocalist, will be leaving her post as senior director, community Read more…
Every Monday evening, The Blue Room stage becomes an epicenter for a quintessential jazz experience: the jam session. Blue Monday jams are integral to American Jazz Museum programming, as well as the greater Kansas City Read more…
The heydays of Kansas City jazz date back to the early 1920s and the city’s 18th & Vine District. Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, was born August 29th, 1920 and grew up playing the saxophone in the Read more…
April is nationally recognized as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). As one of the cradles of jazz, there’s no better place to celebrate than Kansas City! If you’re looking for ways to salute Kansas City jazz, Read more…
Over the years, big band jazz has become synonymous with the 1920’s swing era, but history’s first big bands actually made their debut in the early 1910’s. These early big bands played ragtime and the Read more…
The American Jazz Museum is thrilled to announce Grammy Award winner and soul singer Lalah Hathaway as a headliner for the Kansas City Jazz & Heritage Festival, Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28, 2017. Hathaway’s most Read more…
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