Experience Winterlude Jazz Festival at the Midwest Trust Center

Warm your soul this February 15 & 16 with the Midwest Trust Center at the Winterlude Jazz Festival!  Featuring two days of music from Kansas City’s top jazz artists leading up to a performance by Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS New Orleans Songbook.  Music starts each day at 1 p.m.

Artists include:

Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS

Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS brings the soul of New Orleans and the spirit of Mardi Gras to this amazing evening, celebrating the composers and inspired songs of the Crescent City. From Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to Ellis Marsalis and James Black, New Orleans has long been an apex of innovation and inspiration. Led by pianist Luther S. Allison and vocalists Quiana Lynell and Milton Suggs, New Orleans Songbook immerses audiences in the captivating and timeless spirit of this vibrant city.

Deborah Brown Quartet – Deborah Brown has been an artist since 1972. You can only imagine all the places she’s been, people she’s met, and experiences she’s had. For this performance, she’ll share her story of well-known jazz artists, her brief encounter with Michael Jackson, a dinner with Quincy Jones, and an evening with Mel Tormé. In between stories, the music of the American songbook will be featured with visiting Portland pianist George Colligan, who has recorded with Brown in New York (Songbird), bassist Ben Liefer, and drummer John Kizilarmut.

Lynn Zimmer and Friends – Jazz clarinetist Lynn Zimmer and his group play the music of early New Orleans jazz, plus many wonderful standards from the 1930s and ’40s – the music of the “Great American Songbook.” Most recently, Zimmer and his group played at Dick Hawk’s Gaslight Grill in Leawood for 11 consecutive years—five nights every week. Zimmer is the clarinetist with Kansas City’s own New Red Onion Jazz Babies and the KC Dixieland Band.

Eddie Moore – Eddie Moore is a keyboardist whose music and creativity runs deep through his veins. He began his musical journey in Houston’s Third Ward, an area credited with some of the deepest roots in Black American Music. Moore earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas Southern University and a master’s in jazz studies from UMKC. He is also a Jazz Lecturer at the University of Kansas. Moore has been credited as “Pulling Kansas City Jazz into the Future.” His music incorporates a myriad of styles, including R&B, Hip Hop, Neo Soul, and Rock all filtered through jazz. He seeks to share the common human experiences of love, loss, joy, and perseverance with every composition.

Doug Talley Quartet – Doug Talley has performed with such jazz luminaries as Jay McShann, Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Claude “Fiddler” Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Watson, Karrin Allyson, Byron Stripling, Ignacio Berroa, Ken Peplowski, Randy Brecker, Sean Jones, Scott Robinson, Gary Foster, and Wycliffe Gordon, among many others, and is a founding member of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. He is a familiar face throughout the Midwest as a jazz performer and educator, including many performances nationally and internationally.

Ensemble Ibérica – Beau Bledsoe performs and records classical music, jazz, and folkloric music from around the world, seeking to integrate different musical cultures with new audiences. His interest in exploring new repertoire, cultures, and programming ideas has led to the creation of a large body of arrangements, transcriptions, and compositions for solo guitar and chamber music.

In 2014, he founded Ensemble Ibérica, a group that performs the music of Ibéria (Spain and Portugal) and the colonial Americas, while educating the public about Iberian cultural influence. In May 2023, Ensemble Ibérica performed at Carnegie Hall to a sold-out audience.

 

For more information about the Winterlude Jazz Festival, visit jccc.edu/MidwestTrustCenter.

Ticket Information

Choose from: One-day pass – $35 (general admission) or Two-day pass – $50 (general admission)

Premium two-day pass – $40 (general admission when purchased with New Orleans Songbook tickets).

Visit jccc.edu/MTC or call the Box Office at 913-469-4445 to purchase tickets.

 

Additional Performances in the 2024-2025 Season

The Addams Family (Feb. 21)

Alisa Amador (Feb. 22)

Imani Winds and Boston Brass (Feb. 23)

Goitse (Mar. 6)

Rhythm India: Bollywood and Beyond (Mar. 8)

MTC Kids Jam – Pierce Freelon (Mar. 8)

Dirty Dancing in Concert (Mar. 9)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin (Mar. 16)

Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar (Mar. 28)

Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly (Mar. 29)

Lyric Opera of Kansas City – Maya and the Magic Ring (Mar. 29-30)

Omnium Circus – I’m Possible (Apr. 11)

Uptown (Apr. 19)

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