The Neon Jazz 2021 Year in Review - The Revival Begins

 

732nd Show – December 22, 2021

1 - Ron Wilkins - Spring in Bennett Park - Trombocalist – 2021
2 - Clark Terry and Seldon Powell - Park And Ride - End Play – 2011
3 - Helen Sung w Harlem Quartet - A Grand Night for Swinging - Quartet Plus – 2021
4 - Charles Mingus - Conversation - Take 16 1957
5 - Chad Lefkowitz-Brown and the Global Big Band - St. Thomas - Oopen World – 2021
6 - Jay Jay Johnson's Boppers with Sonny Rollins - Bee Jay - NY, May 11, 1949
7 - Lorraine Feather - Jacket Weather - My Own Particular Life – 2021
8 - Ella Fitzgerald And Her Savoy Eight - My Last Affair - NY, Nov 18, 1936
9 - Roland Tempelaar - Like Someone In Love - New York Chapter – 2021
10 - Lester Young Quartet - Too Marvelous For Words - 1949
11 - Jane Ira Bloom and Allison Miller - Tues Days - Lockdown Sessions – 2021
12 - Horace Parlan - Dexi - Happy Frame Of Mind - 1986

https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-732-122221/

731st Show – December 15, 2021

1 - Joey DeFrancesco - Free - More Music – 2021
2 - Papa John DeFrancesco - The House of the Rising Sun - Desert Heat – 2006
3 - Jake Baldwin - Aviar - Where You're Planted – 2021
4 - Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra w Odadaa Wynton Marsalis - Bamboula Dance - Congo Square – 2007
5 - Lisa Hilton - Nightingales  Fairy Tales - Transparent Sky – 2021
6 - Joni Mitchell -The Dry Cleaner From DesMoines - Mingus – 1979
7 - Barrett Martin Group - Rainshadow - Stillpoint – 2021
8 - Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Cell Talk - The Reset – 2021
9 - Timo Lassy - Sweet Spot - Big Brass (Live at Savoy Theatre Helsinki) – 2020
10 - Barry Harris - The Chase - Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron – 1975
11 - Edward Decker - Another Chance for My Heart - The Best You Can Give - The Songs of Tony DeSare – 2021
12 - Bucky Pizzarelli - The Astronaut - The Astronaut - 1961

https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-731-121521/

KC's Everyday Strangers @ The Blue Room off 18 & Vine - 12.16.21

 

Soul of Jazz Exhibit in Kansas City with Jazz Academy Students Soundtrack

 

KC JAZZ AMBASSADORS ANNOUNCE FIRST ANNUAL JAM MUSICIAN AWARDS - Celebration of KC Jazz set for Tuesday, December 14 7pm

(December 2, 2021) The first annual JAM Musician Awards, presented by the KC Jazz Ambassadors, will be announced on Tuesday, December 14 at Johnnie’s Jazz Club, 14th and Main in Downtown Kansas City. Following a 7pm opening set by the UMKC Conservatory Jazz Ensemble, awards in fourteen different categories will be distributed to Kansas City’s favorite jazz artists, clubs and venues.

 “We received 670 ballots for everyone’s favorite Kansas City jazz musicians,” explained JAM Magazine editor David Basse. “It should be a great night, recognizing KC’s favorite jazz guitarist, vocalist, sax and trumpet players, pianists—everybody, plus categories for favorite jazz clubs, concert venues and radio shows.”

KC Jazz fans were invited in March  to pick their favorite musicians in a variety of categories. The top four favorites were placed on a ballot distributed to Jazz Ambassadors, local musicians and jazz fans around the metro area and region. 

“After what we’ve all been through—especially jazz musicians, who didn’t work for more than a year—it’s great to send some love out to our favorites,” commented Jazz Ambassadors president Mark Edelman.  “When we got back nearly seven hundred ballots, we knew lots of other people felt the same.”

Nominees for the JAM Musician Awards include KC favorites Bobby Watson, Angela Hagenbach, Lonnie McFadden, Joe Cartwright, Danny Embrey and Mike Warren. In addition, awards will be given to 

favorite jazz clubs, concert venues, big bands and radio hosts.

“As they say, it’s an honor just to be nominated by so many jazz fans,” noted KCJA board member Linda McShann. “We’re hoping this becomes an annual event to celebrate the important contribution our musicians make and how much they’re appreciated by the jazz community.”

There is no cover charge at the JAM Musician Awards this year; and Johnnie’s has a full bar and restaurant. Music will continue after the awards are presented; expect some of the JAM Award winners to sit in with the UMKC Jazz Ensemble.

The 2021 Christmas Show

1 - Norah Jones - Christmas Glow - I Dream Of Christmas - 2021
2 - Michael Pagan - Coventry Carol – 2021
3 - Benny Benack III -  My Girlfriend is an Elf - Season's Swingin' Greetings (Deluxe Edition) - 2021
4 - Vienna Carroll - Santa Baby - Mary Had a Babby – 2021
5 - Ray Blue -  The Christmas Song - 2021
6 - Aesino - El Tamborilero - Regalito – 2021
7 - Pete Ellman Big Band - Mack the Halls - The Twelve Grooves of Christmas - 2021
8 - Amber Weekes - The Christmas Waltz - The Gathering – 2020
9 - Kat Edmonson - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don t Be Late) - Holiday Swingin - 2021
10 - Josie Falbo - The Christmas Waltz - A Jazzy Interlude With Josie Falbo – 2021
11 - Jeff Hamilton Trio - Here Comes Santa Claus - Merry & Bright - 2021
12 - Sonia Johnson - Winter – 2021
13 - Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet -  It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas - Fools For Yule – 2021
14 - Carolyn Lee Jones - Warm December - Christmastime is Here - 2021

https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-christmas-2021-show/

730th Show – December 8, 2021

1 - Victor Gould - Blue Lotus - In Our Time – 2021
2 - Oscar Peterson Duo - Nameless  - NY, May 8, 1950
3 - Marc Johnson - Life of Pai - Overpass – 2021
4 - Eliane Elias - October - Kissed by Nature – 2002
5 - Senri Oe - The Kindness of Strangers - Love Letter to NY – 2021
6 - Chalis O'Neal - Return of the King - Flirting – 2021
7 - Pat Coil - Letter To Evan - How Deep is the Ocean – 2021
8 - Stan Kenton And His Orchestra - Dynaflow - By Request - Volume Three – 1973
9 - Altin Sencalar - Chance - Reconnected – 2021
10 - Frank Wess - Apron Strings - Tenor Sax & Flute Essentials – 2021
11 - Gemma Sherry - Bim Bom - Music to Dream To – 2021
12 - Blossom Dearie - Im Hip - Compilation - 1998'
13 - Johnathan Blake - Shakin' The Biscuits - Homeward Bound - 2021

https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-730-12821/

729th Show – December 1, 2021

1 - Todd Cochran TC3 - I Got Rhythm - The and Again Here and Now – 2021
2 - Bobby Hutcherson - Blues Mind Matter - Stick-Up! – 1968
3 - Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra - Something for Tadd - Without a Trace – 2021
4 - Woody Shaw - Organ Grinder - The Essential Woody Shaw The Columbia Years – 2018
5 - Dan Siegel - Faraway Place - Faraway Place – 2021
6 - Bill Evans Trio - Spring Is Here - Notations – 2009
7 - Ed Neumeister Quartet - Gratitude - What Have I Done – 2021
8 - Tom Harrell Quintet - Rapture Take 1 -Moon Alley – 1986
9 -  Jonathan Bauer - Just Friends - Sings and Plays – 2021
10 - Wendell Brunious - A Fool Such As I - In the Tradition – 2016
11 - Kevin Sun - Greenlit - 3Bird – 2021

https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-729-12121/