Results for "Kansas City"

American Jazz Museum Awarded 2012 National Endowment For The Arts - Art Works Grant

April 26, 2012

The American Jazz Museum is pleased to announce the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS has released its 2012 Art Works Grant Awards Recipient listing. The American Jazz Museum is honored to be among those recipients. Specifically, the American Jazz Museum has received $16,000 to support the 2012 Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival. The Rhythm ...

Ramsey Lewis Sun Goddess Tour Closes Gem Theater Season May 19

April 23, 2012

The Sun Goddess Tour featuring Ramsey Lewis and His Electric Band will close out the 2011-2012 Jammin' at the Gem concert series with a performance in the historic Gem Theater in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM. With the release of “Ramsey, Taking Another Look" Ramsey started touring last summer with ...

Jazz Poetry Pioneers at Jammin' at the Gem in February

January 6, 2012

The next concert in the Jammin' at the Gem series features Valentine and Black History Month and a Salute to Jazz Poetry. The Jazz Poetry Jams program at the American Jazz Museum is in its 9th year. The combining of jazz music performance and jazz poetry on the Gem Theater stage in concert is scheduled for ...

American Jazz Museum's Blue Room Named Among Down Beat's Top International Jazz Venues

January 6, 2012

The American Jazz Museum's Blue Room jazz club is the first among two Kansas City venues to be named to Down Beat Magazine's “212 Great Jazz Rooms—An International Listing of the Best Places to See and Hear Live Jazz." The Blue Room was also distinguished by a gold highlighted listing. “We are pleased, humbled and grateful ...

Kansas City's 2011 Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival is October 8th

August 22, 2011

The American Jazz Museum at 18th & Vine in Kansas City, Missouri will present its annual Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The one day event features headliners Christian McBride & Inside Straight (Artist-In-Resident); the legendary Bobby “Blue" Bland (Blues Headliner); and, the band WAR (Festival Headliner). The all-day event ...

12 Oclock Jump Public Radio's New Jazz, Blues and Comedy Variety Hour, Live! From the Building Where Dizzy Met the Bird

July 20, 2009

Public radio has a new jazz, blues and comedy hour. 12 OCLOCK JUMP broadcasts live from the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City's 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District-- where Basie tickled the ivories and Dizzy Gillespie was introduced to Charlie Parker. Produced by Theater League, the show is broadcast live on KCUR-FM 89.3 in Kansas ...

Brian Holland and Jeff Barnhart: Kansas City Ragtime Revelry on November 15th

October 29, 2008

If the upbeat strains of “Fats" Waller, Willie “The Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson get your mojo working, check out the concert Kansas City Ragtime Revelry is presenting on Saturday, November 15th at 7:30 pm at the Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St. KC MO on the Plaza. Brian Holland and Jeff Barnhart are two ...

D.J. Sweeney CD Release Party at Jardine's Jazz Club

October 29, 2008

Frankye Kelly and Friends at Yoshi's in Oakland

August 8, 2008

PCAMI* is proud to announce the addition of Frankye Kelly, jazz vocalist, songwriter and band leader to our prolific musical family. Frankye Kelly lives in San Francisco, California and is one of the top jazz vocalists in the Bay Area. She has over 25 years of national and international experience touring and performing as a solo ...

June 21st, D.J. Sweeney Sings at the Coleman Hawkin's Jazz Fest in St. Joseph, MO

June 5, 2008