Carmen Bradford, a vocalist affiliated with the current edition of the Count Basie Orchestra, will perform in the Kansas City Symphony’s Uptown Nights concerts on Friday, January 6, Saturday, January 7, and Sunday, January 8, at Helzberg Hall.
Now’s the Time: Sean Jones
The marketing material promoting Sean Jones’ concert with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra at Helzberg Hall on Friday, September 30, asserts that “there is no more essential practitioner of the brass arts” than the trumpeter. Advocates of Ambrose Akinmusire, Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton might beg to differ. Nevertheless, Jones’ solo in the embedded video is extraordinary.