7, 2019, originally broadcast live from the Black. Working on the school paper at Grandview High in Kansas City, Missouri, helped awaken Spencers.

PHOTOS: Guitarist and three-time Grammy nominee Rod Fleeman enjoys an improvisation with tenor sax Jim Mair jazz legends Everette Devan on organ, Mike Ning on piano and Scott Prebys on drums take center stage and Jim Mair punctuated a concert for KCKCC Jazz Camp students with a stirring alto sax solo. Star Sessions featured the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Clint Ashlock on Monday, Oct. I did jazz band, marching band and symphonic band. Duke Ellington with the hard charging Kansas City Jazz Orchestra (KJCO).

“Rod Fleeman is a three-time Grammy nominee and three of the instructors have won Governor’s Awards for the Arts – Scott Prebys in North Dakota, Doug Talley in Kansas and Everette Devan in Missouri,” said Mair. Tuesday, Decem7:00 PM The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Presents Hallelujah Holidays Saturday, Ma8:00 PM The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Presents Just the Two of Us Saturday, 8:00 PM The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Presents Roaring KC This package is presently not on sale. Event Promo Photo For Kansas City Jazz Orchestra - Duke Ellington Birthday. In addition to Mair, three of the musicians are adjunct instructors at KCKCC, Mike Ning, who plays piano and keyboard Steve Molloy, trumpet and flugelhorn and Rod Fleeman, They are joined by Kansas City jazz legends Everette Devan on the Hammond B3 organ and James Albright on bass Doug Talley of the Shawnee Mission school district, tenor sax and Scott Prebys, former University of Mary instructor in Bismarck, N.D., drums. Were excited to host this renowned jazz orchestra and give people an opportunity to see them in person and hear them perform. Students at the annual Kansas City Kansas Community College Jazz Camp got to sit in on a concert by many of Kansas City’s greatest jazz artists Wednesday as eight members of the Jazz Camp faculty put on an informal 45-minute concert for campers.ĭirected by Jim Mair, the Director of Instrumental Music at KCKCC and former Director of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, more than 55 young musicians are getting weeklong instruction from an elite instructional staff. The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra will kick off its new season in October with 'Bird Lives.

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