Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Guitarist, Vocalist and Composer Alan Harris .. He grew up in in Brooklyn and his 11th album is 2016’s Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better .. and it’s a part of his signature approach combining swinging jazz, rich R&B, sumptuous balladry, wailing rock, rumbling blues and even a touch of playful Brazilian .. He has played all over the world .. Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and 2012 Olympics in London and has the awards hardware to prove ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Guitarist Andy Brown  .. He spent a childhood in New York City, spent some time in Cincinnati and ended up in Chicago back in 2003 – He learned directly from several guitar masters like Cal Collins, Ted Greene, and Howard Alden. He is now busy with his 2016 album Direct Call with his Quartet and has played big time cats like Howard Alden, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, Ken Peplowski, Hod O’Brien, Anat Cohen, and Kurt Elling – He has great stories .. like the gig he played at the Nobel Peace Prize dinner in Chicago with guests U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist Greg Murphy  .. His musical adventures began in 1971 when he joined the Ray-Fisk Grammar School Band in Chicago and would lead him to his very latest 2016 album Summer Breeze .. One of his big moments came in 1984 when he got the National Endowment for the Arts opportunity to go to New Orleans and study with the eminent pianist and jazz educator, Ellis Marsalis .. Since the 1980’s, he has been big on the NYC jazz scene .. and has played with the likes of Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Terrence Blanchard, Harry Connick, Jr., Charles McPherson and so many others ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist & Composer Helen Sung .. She is coming to Kansas City and performing off historic 18th and Vine at the Blue Room on Saturday November 12, 2016 .. Helen spent her childhood in Houston and went to the prestigious Houston High School of Performing and Visual Arts – She discovered jazz later in life and it’s been her passion .. Her parents really wanted her to get into medicine, but she chose piano at t the University of Texas in Austin – and that has been the best medicine for all of her fans .. evolving a quality jazz sound that fans in KC and around the world love ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Guitarist Joshua Breakstone  .. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was raised in New York and saw Miles Davis at the Village Vanguard when he was a kid .. He pays homage to the piano players in legendary lights on 2016’s the Chello Quartet … 88 – He got his jazz gears going studying in Manhattan with Sal Salvador, going to New College of the University of South Florida (Sarasota, Florida), and the Berklee College of Music – He went on to play with the likes of JoAnne Brackeen, Cecil McBee,  Billy Hart, Pepper Adams, Kenny Barron, and many others ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist & Composer Dan Costa  .. He was born in London to Portuguese and Italian parents and has always been into music .. His latest album - Suite Três Rios – was recorded in Rio De Janeiro and inspired by a few rivers in the Amazon Rainforest – He’s got some good education over his life .. a diploma with merit at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in the UK  and coached by musicians like Kevin Hays and Chick Corea  - he has gone on to make some great sounds in the jazz world ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Alto Saxophonist Richie Cole  .. He grew up in Trenton, New Jersey and would always dream of being a jazz cat .. These days he lives in Pittsburg, PA and is digging the release of 2016’s Richie Cole Plays Ballads & Love Songs .. His early influences were Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker and he got his start in the jazz journey by getting a scholarship from Downbeat Magazine to the Berklee School of Music – and that got him out of Vietnam .. He was baptized well in the early years by being in the Buddy Rich Big Band, Lionel Hampton Big Band and the Doc Severinsen Big Band .. On over 50 albums and CDs – he played with the best ever .. cats like Bobby Enriquez, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Art Pepper, Tom Waits, Boots Randolph, and Nancy Wilson ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Guitarist, Educator and Music Industry Consultant Cameron Mizell  .. This very busy cat started his live in St. Louis, Missouri and these days he’s a mainstay in New York City .. His latest album is 2016’s Negative Spaces and he’s logged a lot of time on albums, at venues, as a teacher and all over the world doing his guitar magic ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Recording Artist & Radio Business Man James D. Conquerer  .. He grew up in the Bay Area and now is in Kansas City .. a home for him for quite some time now .. These days he is a busy man being credited with the execution and launch of Kansas City's newest Jazz radio station, KOJHFM.org right out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation building off 18 & Vine and he is promoting his new album Nouveau Noir Opus I – The genre is Blazz Hop  - that’s a combination of Blues, Jazz, & Hip Hop – and it’s aim is to redefine the sound of Kansas City Hip Hop – Whether getting the world ready for the new radio revolution hitting the KC airwaves or being a curator for the Black American Music – James is ready and has stories ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Bassist, Composer and Educator Jeff Denson  .. He spent his childhood in Arlington, Virginia and dug his mother’s love of the Beatles and  discovered R&B, especially Stevie Wonder, James Brown & the J.B.’s and Marvin Gaye– He went on to the Berklee College of Music - Florida State University and beyond to get his jazz education .. but, his was a chance encounter with Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue that got his jazz world vaulted into orbit .. These days he is promoting 2016’s CD Concentric Circles and to date has recorded 11 albums as leader & co-leader and over a dozen more as a featured sideman with the likes of Lee Konitz  -

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