Origin Records 2023 It is an album of all originals, nine in total, penned by bandleader and saxophonist Matt Otto, KC staple, but also...

Kansas City Jazz Orchestra (KCJO) has a new album. And on it they swing hard, are hip and precise—and, in the tradition, they’ll make you...

Life tends to be a full circle event and for Amsterdam-based jazz vocalist, composer, and bandleader Gabriela Martina, nothing could be...

Matt Kane came up in Hannibal, MO and, after his term at UMKC, he stayed and was on the scene. Now based in New York, Kane is a...

With “Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge, Vol. 2” (2023) With the change in live music because of the pandemic Rod Fleeman, KC...

Kansas City area trumpeter and composer E.E. Pointer has done it again, offered up a very personal, meditative album, quiet but present,...

Release His Debut Album At Fifty-One It is a rare musical feat that a debut album gets released by an artist at the age of 51. Yet,...

CD Review This Hammond B3 trio of Stryker’s cooks. And this album is one of its delicious one-night-only, specialty item meals. Although...

Jack Mouse Group, with Bob Bowman and more Jack Mouse, Chicago jazz-scene staple, has moved back to his hometown of Emporia, Kansas,...

Brooklyn-based jazz vocalist Lucy Wijnands, part of the Wijnands KC jazz legacy, has a new album. It is a remarkable album, at once a...

Chris Burnett’s recent (and second) installment in his live standards collection has energy and levity. It feels like being there, and...

Pianist and composer Bob Himmelberger leads a fascinating, straight-ahead, contemporary album in Legacy. Former luminary Kansas Citian...

Review November 2022 Hermon Mehari’s new album is full of a kind of uncommon grace. It feels like a love letter to his home country,...

By Dr. Wayne Goins “When I put the group together, I used the atmosphere of the club to dictate the vibe of the group, letting the room...

KC staple Christopher Burnett and crew have released a new album of standards, and it’s a delight—lively and solidly in the KC spirit....

KC’s Bob Bowman teams up with Josh Nelson and crew and cooks up a tasty new album, a delicious entree of original tunes. But beneath...

Steve Knight, originally from Olathe, has a new album out. Now a Chicagoan, Knight assembled a stellar jazz trio in Chicago. They played...

(Review 2022) An inventive listen, Jeff Shirley’s BLUE GOLD mixes Eastern and Western music confidently and seamlessly. There’s an...

The New Haven born native has released a consistently high level of solo albums on various labels since his Seven Arrows release on...

This thing swings! There’s a kind of hot, 1930’s Parisian energy to talented violinist Tano Pumara’s new album, Incierto, a tight, small...