Jazz Articles

JAM Current & Past Issues

December 2024 / January 2025 - Spencer Reeve - The California Kid Finds Home in History Rich KC Jazz Scene
October/November 2024 - Veteran Singer Cynthia van Roden Finds Home in KC by Way of Philly & NYC
August 2024 - Mikole Kaar - California Transplant on KC as a Jazztropolis

June-July 2024 - All in the Family with Veteran KC Drummer Brandon Draper

April / May 2024 - Rufus Reid & Shawn Harrel Articles
February/March 2024 - Tyreek McDole Article

January 2024 - Rick Willoughby: Deep Bass Roots for Jazz Journeyman
November 2023 - Gabriela Martina: Honoring the Farm Roaming to Career Comfort

August 2023 - KC Organ Champ Chris Hazelton  Leads In The Swing After Dark

July 2023 - Rod Fleeman - An Elder Statesman of KC Jazz Guitar Releases His First Album as a Leader

May 2023 - Kenny Watson: Emerging Kansas City Drummer
April 2023 - Kansas City Jazz Guitarist Alan Voss Returns
March 2023 - Kansas City's Newest Jazz Club in the Birthplace of Pat Metheny

March 2023 - Rebirth of a Legend - The Return of Kansas City's Hey! Hey! Jazz Club in the Basement of J. Rieger with GM Josie Herrick

January 2023 - Jazz & Live Music Revival: Alan Stribling—Uptown Lounge
December 2022 - Brant Jester: Kid From Ozark Growing up in Kansas City

November 2022 - Veteran Jazz Guitarist John Stein on a True Survival Album
October 2022 - Trumpeter Daniel Dissmore: Destiny and Fitting Into a Scene

August 2022 - Pianist and Singer Alyssa Murray Had a Plan for the Pandemic Blues

June 2022 - Angela Ward - Kansas City All in the Jazz Family
May 2022 - Back Alley Brass Band: 8 Horns and a Drummer
April 2022 - Natalie Bates - Homegrown Kansas City Drummer from Idaho
March 2022 - Pete Fucinaro: The Migration to KC Continues with the New Omaha Import on Saxophone
February 2022 - Adam Larson: Planting KC Roots
January 2022 - The Album Release Debut of a KC Old Soul - Bandleader, composer & musician Chalis O'Neal
December 2021 - Marty Morrison - Jazz Frequent Flyer - Interview
November 2021 - Steve Million - The Missouri Touch – A Real Songwriter
October 2021 - Peter Shilliday
September 2021 - Trent Austin Joins Kansas City Jazz Orchestra
August 2021 - Desmond Mason Playing & Producing Music from LA to KC
July 2021 - Busiest Guitarist in a Woke Kansas City - Meet Michael McClintock
June 2021 - Kansas City Jazz Royalty Grows on Her Own The Story of NYC Jazz Vocalist Lucy Wijnands
May 2021 - "94 and Swingin'" - Meet Alto Saxophonist & Composer Vinnie Riccitelli 
April 2021 - Roundtrip Kansas City Jazz Musician Rob Scheps of Oregon and New York
April 2021 - The New Kid in Town - Evan Verploegh
November 2020 - Trumpeter & Flugelhornist Pete Carroll
October 2020 - Joe Farnsworth
October 2020  - Rich Wheeler - Working Hard and Loving It

September 2020 - Revelations: Surviving the Pandemic
July 2020 - Marcus Lewis - An Interview
June 2020 - Bobby Watson, Jazz Messenger
February - March 2020 - Jackie Myers Feature
December 2019 / January 2020 - Matt Kane Feature Feature
October / November 2019 - Ben Leifer Feature
August / September 2019 - Herschel McWilliams Feature

June / July 2019 - Brandon Goldberg Feature

June / July 2018 - Brandon Draper Feature

February / March 2018 - Bram Wijnands Feature

Dec. 2017 / Jan. 2018 - Deborah Brown Feature

October / November 2018 - Molly Hammer Feature

June / July 2017 - Gerald Dunn Feature

April / May 2017 - The Matt Villinger & Peter Schlamb Feature

February / March 2017 - Eddie Moore Feature

December 2016 / January 2017 - Todd Strait Feature

October / November 2016 - Charles Perkins Feature

August / September 2016 - Logan Richardson Feature

April / May 2016 - Matt Otto Feature

February / March 2016 - Dominique Sanders Feature

December / January 2015 - Eboni Fondren Feature

Kansas City Star Articles

Spring is officially here in Kansas City: The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra will get you moving with tasty Caribbean and Brazilian tunes - February 27, 2020
Christmas in Kansas City Means Jazz - December 2, 2019 
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra revisits the Harlem Renaissance on October 11, 2019