Think you missed out on something? Smalls Jazz Club offers free live streams of every show. The Iridium, where guitarist Les Paul played weekly for 14 years, continues to attract superstar singers and musicians to its stage. The Blue Note, a Greenwich Village cultural staple, brings in fans from all over the world to hear local musicians, who are sometimes joined onstage by some of the jazz world’s biggest stars. Another great spot to visit is the Birdland Jazz Club NYC, where the legend Charlie “Bird” Parker was the first headliner in 1949 eat Cajun fare while listening to jazz in one of the city’s premier venues.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, which is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center and directed by Wynton Marsalis, features Southern-inspired food see emerging artists perform during the famed Late Night Session. It’s easy to fill a travel itinerary with an iconic venue for each night in the city. Today, jazz brunches, two jazz museums – the National Jazz Museum and Louis Armstrong House Museum – and festivals such as the Jazz Age Lawn Party in August and Winter Jazzfest in January attest to New York City’s status as a jazz mecca. Please stay tuned for more details.Jazz is the soundtrack of New York City, beginning in the 1920s and ’30s with the voices of Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway singing at Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club. The 2023 Kansas City Jazz Summit and Basically Basie Competition will be open for in-person performances based on the Covid-19 situation at the time of the event. If you have any corrections or suggestions, please send them to us at. As a drummer, Smith is an active participant in the Kansas City music scene. The "Basically Basie" competition is more about determining which band embraced the "study" of the repertoire and demonstrated their "findings" the most thoroughly and effectively on stage. He is director of the annual three-day 18th and Vine Student Jazz Festival. All of the bands that enter this competition are outstanding and reflect the outstanding leadership provided by their directors. The festival highlights Kansas Citys rich jazz heritage through the Basically Basie Jazz Heritage Competition. The judges are not trying to decide which is "the best" band. The band director then puts all those parts together paying particular attention to dynamics, feel, balance, blend, intonation, articulation and time.īands who accept this challenge and are able to display the evidence of their due diligence on stage are usually the most successful. This puts much onus on each individual musician to do their homework to be able to emulate their part in the score as well as their solos. We hope that each band, as an ensemble, but additionally each individual band member, embraces the challenge of dissecting the composition and studying the interpretation of the artists' who originally performed the music. The point of making "Basically Basie" a competition is to give bands the motivation to delve deeply into their chosen repertoire. Bounced Checks And Questions Around Leadership Plagues The American Jazz Museum. Particularly with bands here in Kansas City, we feel it is important that our students understand, appreciate and take pride in the unique jazz legacy that many musicians, but particularly Count Basie, bestowed on our town. Tag: kansas city jazz and heritage festival. The "Basically Basie" competition is modeled after the "Essentially Ellington" competition in which bands select approved repertoire and work toward emulating the style and spirit of the music as closely to the original performances and recordings as possible.
There is also a non-competitive category (Summit) that allows bands to showcase their own unique style and personality.
Bands are judged on their ability to capture the essence of the Kansas City style as best exemplified by the Count Basie Orchestra. The festival highlights Kansas City's rich jazz heritage through the "Basically Basie" Jazz Heritage Competition. The Kansas City Jazz Summit provides an educational performance opportunity for middle school, high school and college jazz bands, combos and jazz choirs and takes place in April each year at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
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