Riff Generation

300 East 39th Street,Kansas City MO 64111

01 April, 2022

Description

Riff Generation cultivates new music imbued with the improvisational spirit of Kansas City's great jazz heritage The development of jazz music’s early foundation was greatly defined by Kansas City’s stylistic contributions to the genre. Popular songs like “In The Mood” and “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” were largely written in the riff-based style that emerged from Kansas City, and the city’s “jam session” cultivation of the music still lives in clubs and basements around the world. Through KCJO’s platform, we wish to shine a brighter light on this essential component of jazz, and Kansas City’s fundamental place in music history. We will add a stand-alone performance series of new, highly collaborative compositions in a modern examination of the Kansas City “riff style.” This series allows KCJO to engage more local musicians and develop new audience members. Three concerts are planned to introduce this new series in the spring of 2022 and will be in addition to our mainstage series at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Concerts are scheduled for Friday, April 1, 2022, Friday, May 20, 2022, Friday, June 24, 2022 at Plexpod Westport Commons in the Medallion Theater. Learn more at www.kcjo.org/riff-generation