*Eboni Fondren sang in a choir at the G20 Summit in New Delhi.
*Recent episodes of Kansas Public Radio’s Live at Green Lady Lounge program include performances by Tim Whitmer’s Goodtime Quartet and the Reyes Brothers Organ Trio.
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*Eboni Fondren sang in a choir at the G20 Summit in New Delhi.
*Recent episodes of Kansas Public Radio’s Live at Green Lady Lounge program include performances by Tim Whitmer’s Goodtime Quartet and the Reyes Brothers Organ Trio.
*The New York Times caught up with Marilyn Maye.
*Eboni Fondren and Rashida Phillips considered the role of women in the development of Kansas City jazz on KCUR’s Up To Date program.
*KCUR published A Guide to the Best Venues for Live Music Around the Metro.
*All Night Trio and Back Alley Brass Band submitted entries to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest.
*Tweet of the Week: Coalback- Saw u last night @GreenLadyLounge. Excellent show!
*The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra has released a new version of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” featuring vocalist Eboni Fondren.
*Craig Aker, a notable figure in the music community of Columbia, Missouri, is featured in The Maneater.
*Tweet of the Week: Aaron Bean- Doing my door guy thing tonight @GreenLadyLounge until 3am! Kansas City JAZZ at its finest.
*From a press release: Mike Dillon & Punkadelick have released "Pandas", the second single from their forthcoming album, Inflorescence, due January 27 on Royal Potato Family… “In our minds, Led Zeppelin and Milt Jackson, Parliament-Funkadelic and The Minutemen, The Bad Brains and Frank Zappa are interconnected," says Mike Dillon. "All that comes together in how we approach instrumental creative music. Punk rock, funk and jazz are not prefab things, they're about freedom. We have no genre restriction in this band..."
*Steve Kraske chatted with Eboni Fondren, Leslie Maclean and Aryana Nemati on KCUR’s Up To Date program.
*Kansas City’s jazz landscape is represented in a ranking of Kansas City's Ten Best Music Venues.
*Tweet of the Week: San Diego Reader- Kansas City native Julian Vaughn will be performing at the San Diego Smooth Jazz Festival! Happening June 11 - June 12, 2022, at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Purchase your tickets now (lineup)
*The Pitch featured Eboni Fondren in advance of her holiday concert with The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.
*Tweet of the Week: David George- Snuck out of the house for some jazz. Ken, Brian, and Sam killed it! @GreenLadyLounge
*The 2021 edition of the Prairie Village Jazz Festival has been canceled. The lineup consisted of a band led by Adam Larson with Fabian Almazan and Jaleel Shaw, We the People, Back Alley Brass Band and the Shawnee Mission East Blue Knights.
*Carolyn Glenn Brewer attempted to promote her book Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972 on The Pitch’s Streetwise podcast.
*Pat Metheny was interviewed by the popular YouTube personality Rick Beato.
*Eboni Fondren chatted with Steve Kraske about Everette DeVan on KCUR’s Up To Date program.
*Joe Dimino added Trent Austin and Desmond Mason to his catalog of interviews.
*The Spotlight 2021: Charlie Parker initiative is featured in a brief television news segment.
*Tweet of the Week: The Twittah Sh*ttah- Green Lady Lounge, Kansas City. Cool jazz club. To be honest, I was pretty drunk at this place. I think the bathroom was a good one. All I got was two blurry photos and a video of this awesome sink that lights up when you turn it on. (video and photos)