And We're Off!
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra's 20th Anniversary Season started with a bang with what has been my favorite concert during my time with...
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Clint Ashlock
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrating 20 Years
For 20 years, the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra has been in existence, and that’s pretty incredible. If you think about things that have...
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Clint Ashlock
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
KCJO Presents Roaring KC
In the 1920s, Kansas City brought about a few developments that would eventually change the landscape of popular music in the world,...
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Clint Ashlock
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
Onward and Upward
“Onward and upward.” This is something the great Bobby Watson used to say when leaving a conversation or a rehearsal. The mindset of...
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Clint Ashlock
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
Bird Lives Retrospective
Photographs by Suzanne Frisse One of the things about jazz that has always deeply moved me is the heritage; the cultural inheritance...
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KCJO
- Feb 1, 2021
- 5 min
Mamba Mentality
Mamba Mentality: To be on a constant quest to try to be the best version of yourself.
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KCJO
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
The Jazz Way
Bobby Watson would tell his students at UMKC about “the jazz way” of things. He’d relate proverbs from the legendary Art Blakey, like...
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KCJO
- Jun 12, 2020
- 3 min
Kansas City, Here We Come!
Hi folks! It's been a heck of a spring, for sure. On behalf of the band, I just want to say that we can't wait to get back onstage and...
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KCJO
- May 1, 2020
- 3 min
KCJO @ Home
Hi, I’m Clint Ashlock, and I’m the artistic director of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. As you maybe know, we usually put on concerts at...
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KCJO
- Mar 3, 2020
- 1 min
Guest Artist Spotlight: Havana to Ipanema
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...
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KCJO
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Latin Jazz: A Match Made in Heaven
by guest writer Stanton Kessler Latin music has always been around us. Every Latin American country has its own special brand to...
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KCJO
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
Happy New Year!
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...
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KCJO
- Nov 4, 2019
- 2 min
KC All Star Holidays
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...
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KCJO
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
The Cotton Club & the Harlem Renaissance
Cab Calloway. Bessie Smith. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. For a couple decades starting in the 1920s, these legendary performers put on some
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KCJO
- Jul 20, 2019
- 2 min
19-20 Season Guest Artists
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
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KCJO
- May 10, 2019
- 2 min
Stardust Gala
“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...
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KCJO
- Feb 10, 2019
- 3 min
Favorite Love Songs
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...
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