Drummer Carl Maguire & Bassist Alan Maguire of The Maguire Twins

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with drummer Carl Maguire and bassist Alan Maguire known as The Maguire Twins  - They are now promoting their 2nd CD .. 2018’s Seeking Higher Ground – and that’s what these cats are always doing that .. They are identical, musically inclined twins born in Japan .. and growing up in Hong Kong where they seldom heard jazz, and then at 15 they moved to the to musically rich Memphis. They hooked up with Memphis legend Donald Brown, barely into their twenties and since then .. the world has been open to them .. and things keep on getting better ..

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Legendary Jazz Percussionist Steven Kroon

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Percussionist Steve Kroon – He opened up with Neon Jazz about his latest 2018 CD – In Your Dreams – and so much more .. He’s been a professional musician for the last 50 years - Born in Harlem, and lived there until the age of nine. In 1957, we moved to St. Albans Queens. He has appeared on seven platinum albums, fifteen world tours, which include two live video performances and been on the Tonight Show to David Letterman, Jay Leno, as well as the Grammy’s – He learnd and jammed with the likes of Ron Carter, Roberta Flack, Luther Van Dross, Diana Krall, Stanley Turrentine and Bette Midler .. He’s got great stories and tales to tell ..

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Veteran Los Anglese-based Jazz Pianist & Composer George Kahn

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist and Composer George Kahn .. He opened up about his latest 2018 CD – Straight Ahead – and talked about his childhood in  New Rochelle, New York, studying classical music from the age of nine. He began composing while in high school and that he did some gigs in Boston, toured the East Coast with a disco band and eventually moved to California in 1976. He has been major force in the Los Angeles jazz community since the late 1990s – He took some time off from music and came back stronger .. this is just one tale in the annals of many ..

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer, Composer, & Podcaster Leo Sidran

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Multi Instrumentalist, Producer, Arranger and Podcaster Leo Sidran – In a very open conversation, he spoke about his latest 2018 CD – Cool School featuring the Music of Michael Franks and growing up as the son of the legendary music man and jazz interviewer Ben Sidran in Madison, Wisconsin .. He delved into quite a bit about his life .. like his start in music by  writing songs professionally as a teenager for the Steve Miller Band and many more tales, tributaries and journeies ..

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Master Bassist & Educator Anthony Wellington

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with the Master Bassist & Educator Anthony Wellington .. He came through Kansas City on July 9, 2018 to play at the Black Dolphin and talked to Neon Jazz about his life as a musician and eduator that has taken him around the world in a variety of capacities .. including being the 2nd bassist in the Victor Wooten Band – His very s unique approach to the bass is called "Bassology” – he’s a very deep cat with much to say ..

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt of the Jazz Group The Black Art Jazz Collective

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt of the Black Art Jazz Collective .. He talked about hteir latest 2018 CD –Armor of Pride – and their beginnings in 2013 at Jazz at Lincoln Center full of contemporary jazz's leading voices together to collaborate musically and promote the recognition of African- American cultural and political figures. The band is also made up of  Wayne Escoffery (tenor sax) James Burton III (trombone), Xavier Davis (piano),Vicente Archer (bass), and Jonathan Blake( drums) – he discusses quite a bit with Neon Jazz.

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/

Jazz Musician & Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies at Kansas City Kansas Community College Jim Mair

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with saxophonist, flautist, percussionist, singer, and teacher Jim Mair  ..  Born and raised in Canada, these days he is a Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Music and Jazz Studies at Kansas City Kansas Community College, along with so much more .. He graduated from the University of Mary (Bismarck, North Dakota) with bachelor’s degree in music and the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music with a Masters degree .. Along with performing, recording an teaching .. While he was in Idaho from 1995 to 1999 – he had a radio show called "Table Down Front" broadcast across the northwest on NPR affiliates – He is always busy and has been key in the KC jazz scene .. He was the lead in the formation and implementation of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra – the  KC Jazz Alliance which produces the 17th annual Kansas City Jazz Camp and the popular Jazz by the Lake concert series "First Thursdays from noon to 1pm during the school year at KCKCC -

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Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/