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Blue Monday Jams, Lifting Up The Next Jazz Greats

November 7, 2019

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…

Celebrate Charlie Parker’s Birthday at American Jazz Museum

July 11, 2019

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…