961st Show – May 27, 2026

1 - Tierney Sutton and Tamir Hendelman - Spring - Spring - 2026
2 - Armen Donelian - Aqua Reminiscence - Inquiry – 2026
3 - Hindy Bare - Verve - Jillo - 2026
4 - Chris Madsen - Digital Harvest - Threefold – 2026
5 - Tito Puente Jr. - Salsa Na' Ma - The King and I - 2022
6 - Brian Dickinson & Penderecki String Quartet - Spring Sprung In - October Songs – 2026
7 - Ron Rieder - Peach Blossom Blues - Compositions in blue and other hues - 2026
8 - David Janeway - K's Shuffle - Live at the Blue Llama – 2026
9 - Alicia Waller - My Day, Part I - Louder Then - 2026
10 - Yusef Lateef - I Remember Webster - Alright Upon the Lake Live at the Jazz Showcase -2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-961-52726/

960th Show – May 20, 2026

1 - Emilio Solla - Para el Agua - Handmade - 2026
2 - Sharon Minemoto - Rosebud (For Keiko Robson) - Goodbye Strawberry Hill – 2026
3 - Sue Cahill - Fading Into Autumn - Evanstonia - 2026
4 - Jim Robitaille Trio - Sonic - Sonic – 2026
5 - Monika Herzig - Look Out - Transparent - 2026
6 - Huw V Williams-Mark Lockheart-Jay Davis - Shapeshifter  - Shapeshifter – 2026
7 - Virginia MacDonald - Eternal Return of the Same - In Search Of - 2026
8 - Ryan Keberle, Frank Woeste & Vincent Courtois -Gyrostride - Reverson - Between Two Silences – 2026
9 - Daphne Roubini and Black Gardenia - Whisky Scented Kisses - Whisky Scented Kisses - 2026
10 - Roy Hargrove - Circus [Live At The Bern Jazz Festival - Bern [Live At The Bern Jazz Festival 2000] - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-960-52026/

959th Show – May 13, 2026

1 - Sam Baum with David Amram Dan Block and Bobby Sanabria - Dancing with the Calypso Noon Borrowers - From My Shiny Imagination - 2026
2 - Ben Markley Big Band -  Ben's Tune - Tuesday Morning Feeling – 2026
3 - Yelena Eckemoff - Oresund Bridge - Rosendals Garden - 2026
4 - Arturo Sandoval - Scat - Sangu – 2026
5 - Samuel Torres - Fragility - Trio Libre - 2026
6 - Tomas Janzon - Muddy Shoes - Jazz Diary – 2026
7 - Rebecca Rafla - Fundamentally Unfinished - Fundamentally Unfinished - 2025
8 - Hadley Caliman - Quadrivium - Iapetus – 1971
9 - John Pachnos - Getting Outta Dodge - John Pachnos  - 2026
10 - Gabriel Espinosa - Morning Breeze - The Brazilian Project - 2026
11 - Will Lyle - Saturn Return - The All Seeing Eye - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-959-51326/

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958th Show – May 6, 2026

1 - Nolatet - Somethin' To Relax With - Somethin' To Relax With - - 2026
2 - Terry Waldo - Kansas City Stomp - Treasury Volume 3 – 2026
3 - Audrey Ochoa - Maintenance Phase - The Sorceress
4 - Pete Mills - Up To Go Down - This is Now – 2026
5 - Chicago Soul Jazz Collective - So Alive, Pt. 2 - No Wind and No Rain - 2026
6 - Andrea Miller - Blue Skies - Let Our Love Take Wing – 2026
7 - Mitch Dalton - First Thoughts Are Best - Out of the Shadows - 2026
8 - Abate Berihun & The Addis Ken Project - Des Des - Addis Ken – 2026
9 - Lazy Californians - Busted Key Stomp - Back To San Francisco -2026
10 - Ben Wolfe - Always Four - Any Time After Now – 2026
11 - Pat Metheny - In On It - Side-Eye III - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-958-5626/

957th Show – April 29, 2026

1 - John Beasley and SWR Big Band - Concentric - Invisible Piano - 2026
2 - Bobby Broom - The Freedom Suite - Note of Thanks – 2026
3 - Isabella Isherwood - The Song Is You - The Sweetest Sounds - 2026
4 - Catherine Russell - You Ain't Livin' Right (Live) - Live At Jazz At Lincoln Center (Live) – 2026
5 - James Judson - All of Me - Songs of My Dreams - 2026
6 - Nat Reeves - Blue Ridge - Now in Time – 2026
7 - Federica Colangelo and Acquaphonica - Jekov - Forward - 2026
8 - Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet - A Blue Time - A Blue Time – 2026
9 - Joe Gransden - Where Or When - Let's Take A Chance Together - 2026
10 - Mal Waldron - It Could Happen To You - Stardust & Starlight Live At The Jazz Showcase - 2026
11 - Mike McGinnis - April Fools - Contrapunctus - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-957-42926/

956th Show – April 22, 2026

1 - Jeff Lofton - Night Life - ATX Rhythm - 2026
2 - Billy Childs - One Fleeting Instant - Triumvirate – 2026
3 - Steve Wilson - The Eyes of Love - Enduring Sonance – 2026
4 - Ahmad Jamal - A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square - At the Showcase Live in Chicago – 2026
5 - Roosevelt Hoover III - Back at the Chicken Shack - Backyard Blues - 2026
6 - Adrian Younge - Clockwise - Younge – 2026
7 - Meridian Arts Ensemble - Vrooom - The Zappa House Concert – 2026
8 - Harry Skoler - Pow (Lionel Hampton) - Echoes – 2026
9 - Benjamin Cousins and The Sonic Architects - Inner Voices - What We Dream it To Be - 2026
10 - Adam O'Farrill - Eleanor's Dance - Elephant – 2026
11 - Mike Clement - Chad Bop - Polka Dots and Ray Bans - 2026
12 - The Joymakers - Elephant's Wobble - A Texas-Sized Band - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-956-42226/

Bram Wijnands and Peter Shilliday at KC Bier Co. - 4.18.26

 

955th Show – April 15, 2026

1 - Lionel Cole - Cool Blue Mountain - Small Town Vol. 2 - 2025
2 - Tia Fuller, Shamie Royston & Fuller Sound - Black Viking - Dynasty Vol 2 – 2026
3 - Dave Stryker - Every Dark St - Blue Fire - 2026
4 - Ben Flocks - Midnight Sun - Moonshades – 2026
5 - Sam Robinson - The GateKeeper - Chasin the Dream - 2026
6 - Chris Parker Septet - Just a Thought - Reunion – 2026
7 - Tom Lippincott - Radtional Peace - Ode to the Possible - 2026
8 - Jaana Narsipur-  Breakout - The Re-Collection – 2026
9 - Jack Wood feat Lenore Raphael and Doug MacDonald - Fore Very Man Theres a Woman - For Every Man Theres a
10 - Chris Aschman - Neon Dream - Volcanic - 2026
11 - Joe Henderson - Relaxin at Camarillo - Live at the Jazz Showcase - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-955-41526/

954th Show – April 8, 2026

1 - David Basse - Like Jazz - War Within - 2025
2 - Mark Adams - Vibrations - This is Neo-Soul – 2026
3 - Shunzo Ohno - Heroic Dance - Live at Joes Pub - 2026
4 - Caleb Wheeler Curtis - You Just Can't Keep The Music - Ritual – 2026
5 - Mark Christian Miller - Mr. Kicks - Strange Meadowlark - 2026
6 - Brian Lynch (Featuring Charles McPherson) - The Juggler - Torch Bearers – 2026
7 - Jared Hall - Little B's Poem - Hometown - 2026
8 - Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua And Scott Colley - Dear Chick - Peregrine – 2026
9 - Carolyn Trowbridge - Turtle Heart - Found Memories - 2026
10 - Barry Greene - Green Street - Giants - 2026
11 - Bria Skonberg - New Orleans Bump - Brass - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-954-4826/

953rd Show – April 1, 2026

1 - The Ted Rosenthal Trio w Ken Peplowski - Sunny Side Up - The Good Old Days – 2026
2 - Brian Landrus - Beyond - Just When You Think You Know – 2026
3 - Christian Dillingham Feat. Greg Ward & Jeremy Cunningham -  As It Relates To Now -  As It Relates To Now - 2026
4 - Cyger and Butterworth - Plaid Pants - Plaid Pants – 2026
5 - Bernie Senensky & Pat LaBarbera - I Thought About You - Duos - 2026
6 - Michel Petrucciani and Eddy Louiss - Simply Bop (Live) - Original Album Classics – 2009
7 - Faye Carol - Last Two Dollars - Forever Dynamic For Radio Promotion - 2026
8 - Beto Paciello - Tempus Fugit - The Stoic Suite – 2026
9 - Gilad Barakan - Kasemono - Unsettled - 2026
10 - Frank Owens - Corner of the Sky - Brown N Serve - 1973
11 - The Late Night with David Letterman Theme Song 1982-93

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-953-4126/

951st Show – March 25, 2026

1 - Paul Edis and Noa Levy - Peri's Scope - Portrait in Evans - 2026
2 - Bill Evans - Israel - At the BBC – 2026
3 - Glenn Makos & Bru - The Last Straw - Arrowsic - 2025
4 - Steve Kovalcheck - Fast Eddie - Buckshot Blues – 2026
5 - Ornette Coleman - Focus on Sanity (Mono) - The Shape of Jazz to Come - 1959
6 - Hendrik Meurkens - Surf Board - Samba Tonto – 2026
7 - Paul Keller Orchestra -  Bopportunity (feat. Keith Kaminsk - Thank You Notes - 2026
8 - Dominic Walker Trio - Witchcraft - Hurricane Summer – 2026
9 - Joe Steels - These Are The Days - A Blue Patch - 2026
10 - April Varner - A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella - 2026
11 - Ulysses Owens Jr. - Espresso - Around The World With U - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-952-32526/

951st Show – March 18, 2026

1 - Kate Olson - Pink Mountain - So it Goes – 2025
2 - Quincy Jones - What's New Pussycat - Quincy Plays for Pussycats – 1965
3 - Dan West - Beeba - Presenting The Dan West Big Band - 2026
4 - Javier Nero Feat. Sean Jones & Daniel Dickinson - Seminole - Alkebulan – 2026
5 - The BLCK Madonna- Afro Blue - Between the Lines – 2026
6 - Flying High feat Champian Fulton Trio - Just for a Thrill - Still Soaring – 2026
7 - Aaron Irwin Trio - Spark - Spark – 2026
8 - Mike Clark and The Skipper - Changing Emphasis - Daggerboard – 2025
9 - Mareille Merck - Kaleidoskop I -  Kaleidoskop – 2025
10 - Joshua Achiron - The Papaya King - Climbing - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-951-31826/

Neon Jazz Episode 950 Celebration via Show Engineer John Christopher - 3.11.26

 

950th Show – March 11, 2025

1 - Wild Blue Herons - Mr. Wiggly – It’s All About Love – 2026
2 - Eyal Vilner Big Band - Drop Me Off In Harlem - Big Apple Stomp – 2026
3 - Andy James - Architect Of My Blues - Architect Of My Blues – 2025
4 - Aubrey Johnson -The Waking - The Lively Air – 2026
5 - Bob Reynolds - Eddie Told Me So - Eddie Told Me So - 2026
6 - Harvie S - Devil May Care - Bright Dawn – 2026
7 - Martin Bonventre - Sometimes a Day Goes By - Swinging in a New Dimension – 2026
8 - Owen Chen & Eternal Wind - The Dragon Boy (From _Spirited Away) - The Ghibli Collection – 2026
9 - Homero Alvarez Septet - Algoritmos - Flowing – 2026
10 - Sam Yahel - Badum - Quite Flow – 2026
11 - Julian Davis Reid -My Parents' Greatest Gift to Me - Vocation - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-950-31126/

Nneoma Lanea @ Thursday @ Noon @ The Blue Room in Kansas City - 3.5.25

 

949th Show – March 4, 2026

1 - Alex Robinson - If the Moon Turns Green - I Really Oughta Tell You – 2026
2 - Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band - Desire - In the Brass Palace – 2026
3 - Ella Grace -Rapid Eye Movement - Figments - 2026
4 - US Air Force Academy Band - The Falconaires - Impressions - Watershed – 2026
5 - Melissa Erico - But Beautiful - I Can Dream Cant I - 2026
6 - Meg Okura -Sushi Gadol - Isaiah – 2026
7 - The Interplay Jazz Orchestra - The Downside Up - Bite Your Tongue - 2026
8 - Bobby Wiens - Hermann - Focus – 2026
9 - Corcoran Holt Feat. Lewis Nash - Rae Ray - Freedom of Art - 2026
10 - Pat Bianchi - Dizzy's Dilemma - Confluence - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-949-3426/

948th Show – February 25, 2026

1 - Mike Bourne Band - Kansas City O'clock - Kansas City O'clock – 2025
2 - Jay McShann - Blue Feeling - The Big Apple Bash – 1979
3 - Luke Norris - Inner Silence - Moment From The Past – 2026
4 - Tyrone Allen II - Smp Sng- Upward – 206
5 - Fletch Wiley - When I Fall in Love - Urban Reel – 1992
6 - Doc Severinson with Alan Blaylock Jazz Orch - I Want to Be Happy - Prime Time – 2014
7 - Alyssa Allgood - I'm Old Fashioned - Leap – 2026
8 - Stephen Parisi Jr. -The Italian Space Program - Buddy – 2026
9 - Bonnie J Jensen - People Make The World Go Round - Rise – 2025
10 - Dana Legg - Superstar - Scoopin' The Loop – 2026
11 - Scott Lee - Big Waters - Greetings from Florida Postcards from Paradise - 2026
12 - Doug MacDonald Trio - Mall Blues - Live in Beverly Hills - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-948-22526/

947th Show – February 18, 2026 – “Kansas City Jazz Hour”

1 - Eddie Durham - Swinging Mood - Blue Bone – 1981
2 - Buck Clayton – What’s the Use - Late Night Jazz – 2025
3 - Count Basie - Stereophonic - Hits and Rarities – 2026
4 - Pete Johnsons Band - 627 Stomp – 1940
5 - Charlie Parker. - K.C. Blues - Plays the Blues – 2025
6 - Lester Young - Lester Leaps In - Live at Birdland in 1951 – 2025
7 - Mary Lou Williams - When Dreams Come True - The Circle Recordings – 2007
8 - Jimmy Rushing - Boogie Woogie - The Essentials – 1974
9 - Jay McShann - Vine Street Boogie - Single – 1974
10 - Charlie Creath's Jazz O’ Matics - Crazy Quilt - KC Jazz – 2007
11 - Andy Kirk and His 12 Clouds of Joy - Sweet and Hot - Clouds of Rhythm – 2025
12 - Hot Lips Page - Small Fry - Harlem Trumpet King - The Swing Years 38-40 – 2025
13 - Bennie Moten - Missouri Wobble - rritory jazz - the kansas city sound of bennie moten – 2025
14 - Walter Page and The Blue Devils - There's A Squabblin' - Essential KC Jazz – 2026
15 - Joe Turner - Blues in the Night - Greatest Hits - 1951

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-947-111825-kansas-city-jazz-hour/

946th Show – February 11, 2026

1 - Jacob Wutzke - Pedalling Falsehoods - Pedalling Falsehoods – 2025
2 - Buddy Rich - Superstar - Sound of Fury Live – 2022
3 - Whitney Ross-Barris - Bird of Paradise - Curtains of Light – 2025
4 - Anna Kolchina - Who Can I Turn To - Reach for Tomorrow – 2026
5 - LOBE - Sucker Punch - LOBE – 2025
6 - The Jones Factor - High Wire - Not Sure – 2026
7 - Maja Jaku - Everything Must Change - Blessed and Bewitched – 2025
8 - Phil Woods, Rob McConnell The Boss Brass - Out of Nowhere - Phil Woods and the Bross Bass – 1996
9 - Kelsey Mines - Sitting And Not Waiting - Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious – 2025
10 - Linda Oh - Deeper Than Happy (feat. Dayna Stephens, Fabian Almazan & Rudy Royston) - Initial Here – 2012
11 - Ron Reider - Dizzy Spell - Compositions in blue and other hues - 2026
12 - Ken Peplowski - Enrapture - Enrapture - 2016

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-946-21126/

The Joshua Redman Quartet at The Folly in KCMO - 2.7.26

 

945th Show – February 4, 2026

1 - Aretha Tillotson - Jill of All - Kinda Out West - 2025
2 - Brian Claxton - Carry You - Here Goes Nothing – 2026
3 - Nutty - 50 Ways To Shake Your Fever - Live at Bake Potato - 2025
4 - Charlie Apicella and Iron City - Remembering BB King - Live in NYC – 2026
5 - Alma Micic - Lilac Wine - Lilac Wine - 2025
6 - Helen Merrill - Comes Love - Helen Merrill with Strings - 1955
7 - Rich Siegel - Spring Again - It's Always Been You - 2025
8 - Kenny Reichert - Spheres (Live) - Live in Chicago – 2025
9 - Bruno D'Ambra - Ain't Nobody - Single - 2025
10 - Laurent Ziliani - Skybound - Skybound - 2025
11 - Miles Davis - How Am I To Know - MILES_ The New Miles Davis Quintet - 2024

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-945-2426/

Honoring Anita Dixon-Brown: Kansas City Jazz Icon & UNESCO Visionary | Neon Jazz

 

944th Show – January 28, 2026

1 - The Paul Litteral Band - Home At Last - The Litteral Truth - 2025
2 - Cannonball Adderley - Letter From Home - African Waltz – 1961\
3 - James Fernando - The Parisian - Philly 3 - 2026
4 - Scott Routenberg Trio  - Cool Walk - Scott Routenberg Trio Live At Merrimans' Playhouse Oscar Peterson Tribute – 2026
5 - Jakob Dreyer - The Fifth Floor - Roots and Things - 2025
6 - Joel Ross - Wisdom Is Eternal (For Barry Harris) - Gospel Music – 2026
7 -  Baltimore Jazz Collective - Gary Bartz Medley - Self Titled - 2026
8 - Ricky Alexander - Wildcat Blues - Ragology – 2026
9 - Martin Bejerano - Purple Rain - The Purple Project - 2025
10 - Dave Wilson Quartet -Let's Go - When Even Goes East - 2026
11 - Dave Slonaker Big Band - Bye Bye Blues - Shifty Paradigms - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-944-12826/

943rd Show – January 21, 2026

 1 - Rebecca Kilgore with Hal Smith's Rhythm Makers - How Jazz Was Born - Sings the music of Fats Waller – 2016
2 - Fats Waller - Two Sleepy People - Best of – 1956
3 - Naoya Ogura - Colors of a Journey - Colors of a Journey - 2026
4 - Joe Magnarelli - Decidedly So - Decidedly So – 2026
5 - Josie Falbo - Get a Kick Out of You - Kickin It - 2025
6 - Vancouver Jazz Orchestra & James Danderfer - Colour Contrast - Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Meets Brian Charette – 2026
7 - Nikola Bankov - Peace of Mind (feat. Tim Lefebvre) - Everwanted -2025
8 - Heisenberg Uncertainty Players - Catalpa  - Return to the Enchanted Forest – 2026
9 - Marie-Soleil Lambert - Abertica - Anastasia – 2025
10 - Alexa Tarantino - Provoking Luck - The Roar And The Whisper – 2026
11 - Greg Burrows - Piazza Navona - Let's Not Wait - The Music of Ed Bonoff - 2025
12 - Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey - I Understand - One More Time - 1981

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-943-12126/

Mike Bourne & KC Boogie @ Club 1909 in Downtown Lee's Summit, MO - 1.17.26

 

942nd Show – January 14, 2026

1 - Maria Kaushansky - Northbound to Finch - Northbound to Finch  - 2025
2 - The Headhunters - Watermelon Man - Live at Garcias in Chicago -  2025
3 - John Clay - Humpty Dumpty - About Time – 2026
4 - Mattias Svensson - Cheddar - Embrace – 2026
5 - Kate Wyatt - Going to the Sun - Murmurations - 2025
6 - Rick Roe - The Ringer - Wake Up Call (The Music Of Gregg Hill) – 2026
7 - Gil Livni - Red Bird - All In - 2026
8 - Mike Casey - Space Chill - WPAA TV Session – 2025
9 - Theorem of Joy - New Spring - Feux - 2025
10 - Glenn Markos and Bru - The Last Straw - Arrowsic - 2025
11  - Julian Lage - Opal  - Scenes from Above - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-942-11426/

Neon Jazz Honoring Jazz Veteran & Cultural Hero Chuck Redd on Episode 941 - January 7, 2026

 

941st Show – January 7, 2026

1 - Chuck Redd and Nate Najar - Scissors - Meet the Graingers – 2024
2 - Betty Bryant - Thanks to You - Nothin Better to Do - 2026
3 - Coradito - Terminal 5 - The Afro Caribbean Jazz Collective - 2025
4 - Eddie Allen & Push - Daybreak - Rhythm People – 2026
5 - Mighty Joe Belson and The Doodle Cats - Manny Manhattan - Reinventing the Wheel – 2025
6 - Miles Donahue - Deacon's Disco Dream - Trust in Myself – 2023
7 - Tony Davis - And I Do - Jessamine - 2025
8 - Sam Dillon - Chill - Trade Off – 2025
9 - Prawntail - Flop Sweat - Prawntail - 2025
10 -Paul Ricci - Down On 6th St. - The Path – 2026
11 Nate Smith - feat. Braxton Cook - Hop Skip Jump - Live-Action – 2025
12 - Michael Dease - Song Of Those Who Seek - MSU Jazz Trombones Spartan Strong - 2026

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-941-1726/