This spring, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra launched a new ensemble, Riff Generation. The ten-piece ensemble creates new jazz compositions all while remaining deeply engrained in Kansas City’s riff-based improvisational tradition. The development of jazz Read more…
Celebrate With Us September 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of the American Jazz Museum, and we look forward to commemorating the occasion with local visitors and tourists all year long. To kick Read more…
Eliane Elias April 16 | 8PM Multi GRAMMY® Award-winning internationally acclaimed recording artist, pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ distinctive musical style is one of the most unique and immediately recognizable sounds in jazz. She blends her Brazilian Read more…
Get your tickets today for Just the Two of Us, presented by The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, an evening of contemporary jazz with guest saxophonist Kirk Whalum. The performance will take place on Saturday, March 12 Read more…
Each Kansas City neighborhood offers its own distinct flavor. You’re a bar hopper? Drink up in Westport. You’re a clothing shopper? Get your fit at the Plaza. Coffee connoisseur? Sip away in Crossroads. But if Read more…
Two Powerful Jazz Vocalists are coming to the Folly Theater The Folly Theater is now in the last half of its jazz season, but that doesn’t mean that things are getting quiet. Stacey Kent, the Read more…
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 5th annual Folly Frolic will feature The Hot Sardines! Let’s all head to the Folly Theater on ! The Hot Sardines, known for their lively jazz music, sold out the Folly Theater last time 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…
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