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"BBQ Suite" Will Get The Full Treatment

Source: David A. Orthmann
March 28, 2012

Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and Bobby Watson will bring the heat to a saucy project. This is no big-band tribute to sounds of the past. The next show by the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is all about now. This time, the KCJO, a powerful alliance of 17 of our town's top musicians, gives free rein to the music of Bobby Watson, the reigning boss of the city's jazz scene. On Friday they will perform his “Gates BBQ Suite" and some ...

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