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*Kansas Public Radio will begin airing a weekly program titled Live at Green Lady Lounge in July.
*The Kansas City Star reports on a lawsuit regarding the February death of Ronald McFadden.
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*Ronald McFadden has died.
*Lawrence Brooks IV highlighted the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s outreach programs for KCUR.
*Startland reports on plans for Ruthell’s in the Jazz District.
*Bill Frisell’s concert at the 1900 Building is among KCUR’s March concert recommendations.
*The Pitch checks out Con Chapman’s new book about Kansas City’s jazz history.
*Tweet of the Week: American Jazz Museum- Sending our dearest condolences to the McFadden Family on the loss of Ronald McFadden, the great vocalist, saxophonist and tap dancer. Thanks for your talent and for making us proud. We’ll miss every beat. Rest in Heaven, your family at the American Jazz Museum.
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*Giovanni Russonello of The New York Times suggests that one of Logan Richardson and Blues People’s sets at the Village Vanguard in May was “the sparsest show I had been to the Vanguard in years in terms of attendance and it was the best show that I had been to at the Vanguard in years” in an episode of Popcast.
*Steve Kraske chatted with the McFadden Brothers and Candace Evans on KCUR’s Up To Date.
*Joe Dimino documented a street party fueled by the Back Alley Brass Band.
*Anteloper’s July 9 concert in Columbia is previewed by Aarik Danielson for The Columbia Daily Tribune.
*Tweet of the Week: Next On TCM- PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955) Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien. Dir: Jack Webb 12:00 PM ET The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with a gangster in '20s Kansas City. 1h 35m | Crime | TV-PG
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*An otherwise commendable feature story in The Kansas City Star about a reunion of the McFadden Brothers asserts the duo has been on a “ten year hiatus.” A cursory check of Plastic Sax’s published archives confirms that’s simply not the case.
*KC Studio checked in with Vincent Orsolini.
*Tweet of the Week: West End Cultural Centre- In the 1920s thousands of dance bands were scattered across America. Join the @WpgJazzOas we explore some of the rarely-played music from that era alongside hits from the wild and raucous Kansas City jazz scene.
Ronnie McFadden, best known in Kansas City as half of the dynamic McFadden Brothers, once made an appearance with David Dahoud Williams and Eddie Baker in an advertisement for a bygone cable television company.