HeyJaredNotes from the American Jazz Museum
Kansas City didn't just play jazz. It reinvented it. The American Jazz Museum sits at the corner of that history — 18th & Vine — and Notes is how we keep the conversation going. Performances, stories, news, and the culture that connects it all.
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This Weekend at the Blue Room — Houston Smith, Alan Voss & Rob Trib III (opens the original)
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This Weekend at the Blue RoomSeptember 25–28, 2026Kansas City is home to all three of this weekend’s bandleaders, by three different routes. Houston Smith grew up on its bandstands: by thirteen he was working around the city, mentored by Bobby Watson, Gerald Dunn, and Chris Burnett, and after Berklee he came home. Last year he shared this stage with Watson, and Friday he plays two sets. Rob Trib III came from Chicago’s South Side, where he started in church as a small child and taught himself by
Adam Larson Workshop — Jazz Improvisation, Composition & Music Business (opens the original)
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This Weekend at the Blue Room — J Love, Eboni Fondren & Dan Sturdevant (opens the original)
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This Weekend at the Blue RoomSeptember 18–21, 2026Three of this weekend’s bandleaders grew up in families that already played. J Love’s grandfather sang lead for the Soul Stirrers; Friday at Indigo Hour she sings her first Blue Room set billed as jazz. Eboni Fondren’s father and aunts sang in the house in Chicago, though she found jazz later, on Everette DeVan’s bandstand in college. She sings two sets Friday night. Monday’s jam host, Jaylen Ward, took his uncle’s chair in his parents’ band. The
This Weekend at the Blue Room — Jass, Pure Sweetness & Paganova (opens the original)
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This Weekend at the Blue Room — Jass, Pure Sweetness & PaganovaThursday, September 3 – Monday, September 7This week starts close enough to hear every word and builds from there. Jass opens Thursday with a free noon duo set. Friday begins with Darron J & Go Hard Band turning happy hour into a party, then Pure Sweetness fills the night with soul. Paganova brings Latin warmth and bebop fire on Saturday, and Ernest Melton closes the run by opening the bandstand to Kansas City’s players Monday night.
This Weekend at the Blue Room — Delynia Jannell, The Tribe & Sir James Atwood (opens the original)
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This Weekend at the Blue Room — Delynia Jannell, The Tribe & Sir James AtwoodFriday, August 28 – Monday, August 31What does a band need to say something? This weekend the Blue Room offers three answers. Friday opens with a voice raised in church and seasoned at Carnegie Hall, then hands the night to a band that says everything without a single word. Saturday, the voice comes roaring back. And Monday, August goes out the way every good Kansas City month should — with an open bandstand.<div c
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