Jazz

Radio Kansas plays Jazz

Jazz has a long history on public radio, and we’re glad to bring you two great shows for fans of jazz and lounge! As with every genre we play, we’re always looking to expand to more hours if listeners support those already on the air!

Of course, we’re most famous with the jazz community for our 24-hour stream!

Click the link above marked Jazz, or just click here to listen right now! Those with special HD Radios in the Wichita market can also listen over-the-air 24 hours per day!

Our FM Jazz Lineup Saturday evenings:

Live at the Green Lady Lounge – 7 pm

Live at the Green Lady Lounge showcases live performances from the stage of one of Kansas City’s premier jazz venues.

There’s an old saying that “Jazz was born in New Orleans, but it grew up in Kansas City”. During KC’s jazz heyday in the 1920s and ’30s, hundreds of cabarets, dance halls, and jazz venues arose in the city, including the Paseo Room, Pla-Mor Ballroom and the Reno Club, where Count Basie was discovered in late-night radio broadcasts.

Live at the Green Lady Lounge features live performances from the stage of one of Kansas City’s most popular jazz clubs. Located on Kansas City’s historic Grand Boulevard, the Green Lady Lounge presents live jazz every night, 365 days a year.

Among the performers who’ve appeared at the Green Lady are Ken Lovern’s Organ Jazz Trio, the Reyes Brothers Trio, Guitar Elation, Wire Town, pianist Roger Wilder, Tim Whitmer’s Goodtime Quartet and Alex Abramovitz’s Swing’n Kansas City Jazz Band.

The Retro Cocktail Hour – 8 pm

Host Darrell Brogdon

Big Band, swinging bachelor pad music, exotica, bossa nova and groovy movie soundtracks.

The Retro Cocktail Hour is a weekly hi-fi highball of vintage “bachelor pad” music, exotica, private eye jazz and eccentric, overstimulated pop music of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.

The show’s spiced with everything from obscure Italian B-movie soundtracks and bossa nova to contemporary bands like Don Tiki, the Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys, Waitiki, the Tikiyaki Orchestra, the Italian Secret Service, Balanco and others.