This page is what we’re doing now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

youth jazz season begins

The 2024 YouthJazz.us Fellowship has begun with an outstanding start.

The spring and summer program is in it’s 6th season, has released 5 commercial albums of music on a professional record label, and continues to attract the top talent from our region’s youngest generation of jazz musicians.

Youth Jazz is a professional music industry experience that is based upon being a no-cost and merit-based scholarship opportunity, take a look and listen here.

“ORIGINALS” is here

We finished recording and producing our next album titled “ORIGINALS” in December 2023 and we released it worldwide on our 45th anniversary in March 2024.

“ORIGINALS” is out worldwide and is our 5th professionally published album. It turned out great!

“ORIGINALS” complete PDF sheet music scores are also available through Hal Leonard’s Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct!

he’s the president

Christopher Burnett is now serving as the volunteer board president of the nonprofit jazz catalyst organization here in the Kansas City area named, Kansas City Jazz ALIVE, Inc. Lots of cool things coming!

musicians never retire

We still practice every day, teach music students, perform with our ensembles and in several community groups, as well as write and publish music.

Every musical mentor we’ve had over the years has told us that musicians actually never retire at 65 years old, at least in the sense that people with 9-5 jobs generally do.

As long as our health allows us to continue professionally performing, composing, teaching… and our artistic inspiration is there, we will continue on this path until we leave this realm. We both think that’s cool.

Updated April 8, 2024, from our home in the Kansas City metro area.