JAM at 15


With JAM celebrating its 15th year in 2001, we've been looking back and recalling musicians, clubs and jazz-related events that have made it to our radar screen. In the June/July JAM we ran a synopsis of past "Club Profiles," and in the August/September issue there was a roundup of cover features from 1986 to 2001.

What follows is a rundown of interview subjects from our "Q&A" series that began in December of '93. What a pleasure it has been to talk to each and every one of these fine artists and important boosters of America's music. -- MM


1993
December/January
William McGlaughlin
(Music Director, Kansas City Symphony)

1994
August/September
Carol Comer
(singer, pianist, educator)

1995
April/May
Vince Bilardo
(drummer, bandleader, KC jazz veteran)

June/July
Stan Kessler
(trumpeter, bandleader, Sons of Brasil)

August/September
Pat Metheny
(guitarist, KC native, Grammy-winner)

October/November
Debra Johnson
(host, "The Jazz Place" on KCUR)

December/January
Kim Park
(saxophonist, recording artist, educator)

1996
February/March
Michael McGraw & Bill Crain
(leaders of the Boulevard Big Band and the Trilogy Big Band)
Eric Marienthal
(saxophonist, national recording artist, soloist)

June/July
Rev. Emanuel Cleaver
(Mayor of Kansas City)

August/September
Marilyn Maye
(singer, recording artist, KC jazz legend)
Robert Altman
(veteran filmmaker, director of "Kansas City")

October/November
Warren Durrett
(bandleader 1945-86, arranger, producer)

December/January
Marvin Stamm
(trumpeter, national recording artist, soloist)

1997
February/March
Pete Eye
(pianist, bandleader, KC jazz veteran)

April/May
Dick Wright
(host of "The Jazz Scene" on KANU)

August/September
Calvin Wilson
(jazz writer, The Kansas City Star)

October/November
Doug Tatum
(Executive Director, KC's Folly Theater)

December/January
Allene Mahogany & Beverly Rehkop
(photographers of KC jazz artists)
Fred Hersch
(pianist, national recording artist, soloist)

1998
June/July
Ramsey Lewis*
(pianist, bandleader, national recording artist)

August/September
Doc Severinsen
(trumpeter, bandleader, soloist, national recording artist, conductor)
George Benson*
(guitarist, national recording artist, soloist)

October/November
Dr. Mike Pettengell
(host of "Take Five" on KCUR)

December/January
Lyle Mays
(pianist, soloist, recording artist w/The Pat Metheny Group)
Angela Hagenbach
(singer, bandleader, recording artist)

1999
June/July
Steve Irwin, Jo Boehr & John Jessup
(a.k.a. Kansas City Jazz International)

August/September
Diana Krall
(singer, pianist, national recording artist, soloist)
Anne Manson
(Music Director, Kansas City Symphony)

October/November
Gil Goldstein
(pianist, national recording artist, soloist, arranger, conductor, producer)

2000
February/March
Kurt Elling
(singer, national recording artist, soloist)

April/May
Bob McWilliams
(host of "Jazz In the Night" on KANU)

June/July
Dr. Billy Taylor
(pianist, educator, national recording artist, soloist, host of "Jazz at the Kennedy Center")
Dr. Leslie E. Becker
(longtime KC jazz supporter and aficionado)

August/September
Bobby Watson
(saxophonist, national recording artist, soloist, Director of Jazz Studies at UMKC)

December/January
Bob Brookmeyer
(trombonist, bandleader, national recording artist, arranger, composer, international jazz star, KC native)
Chuck Lamb
(pianist, composer, bandleader, recording artist, former leader of KC's "Dryjack")

2001
February/March
Jon Poses
(jazz presenter, director of the "We Always Swing" jazz series)

June/July
Arturo Sandoval
(trumpeter, pianist, bandleader, national recording artist, soloist)

August/September
George Duke
(pianist, national recording artist, soloist, bandleader, producer)
Will Matthews
(guitarist, recording artist, member of the Count Basie Orchestra, KC native)

October/November
Dr. Ronald McCurdy
(educator, trumpeter, president of the IAJE)

December/January
Rev. Duke Tufty
(Unity minister, presenter of KC's "Spirituality and All That Jazz")

* interviewed by Jeff Charney


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