If you don't already know them, allow me to introduce you to our two phenomenal guest artists for our Havana to Ipanema: KCJO Plays Latin Jazz! concert, 3/7 ...

by guest writer Stanton Kessler Latin music has always been around us. Every Latin American country has its own special brand to contribute to the world stag...

Greetings from the Big Easy! I’ve been at the Jazz Education Network conference in New Orleans this week, and it has been a fantastic experience. Spending ti...

It’s already November! As we near the holiday season, we here at the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra would like to extend joy and love and, of course, great big b...

Cab Calloway. Bessie Smith. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. For a couple decades starting in the 1920s, these legendary performers put on some

During the 2019-2020 KCJO Concert Season, we’re going to bring in some pretty big time guest artists, for their first time sharing the stage

The Kansas City jazz scene is best described as a family. Help us raise $10,000 to support KC vocalist Molly Hammer as she battles cancer.

“And now, the purple dusk of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart.. ...the melody haunts my reverie, and I am once again with you... ...my sta...

If they ask me, I could write a book About the way you walk and whisper and look I could write a preface on how we met So the world would never forget Music ...