After writing for Living Blues, Gilley worked on the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, which was held at the Liberty Memorial in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, from 1990 to 2001. His brief ...

From the "Queen of the Blues" to the irreplaceable Myra ... Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg founded the Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, seeking to celebrate, support and bring awareness to ...

Gahanna once again hosts its Creekside Blues and Jazz Festival for ... time we played in the city was in our basement for like 12 people, and now we're at this festival where there's literally ...

Flip Phillips and David “Fathead" Newman all of whom happened to be on the S/S Norway for the 14th annual Floating Jazz Festival ... and blues, Jay McShann's Still Jumpin' The Blues will hit you where ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you’re not in the holiday spirit yet, it's time to get ready. Local musicians Friday released a Christmas benefit album for those with disabilities. Jazz, hip hop and ...

But the local monastery and prep school has another budding tradition on its hands, as the St. Bernard Blues ... festival this year, says director Joyce Nix, is the event's first-ever Kansas City ...

Kansas City PBS offered The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra an opportunity to take ... Two of these are swinging takes on an up-tempo blues and "I Got Rhythm" changes, and the third is a smoldering ...

Organizer John Borland cited time spent at like-minded festivals in Kansas City, as well as the former Roots N Blues festival in Columbia, as inspiration for the event. "We felt a strong desire to ...