Based on their name alone, you might assume that the music of Kansas stuck to the themes and sounds of the American heartland. Instead, the band touched on a little bit of everything in their careers, ...

Caney, Kansas, is not known as a hotbed of jazz, not now or in the 1910s. But it was the birthplace of singer-songwriter ...

Last week, the annual Batavia Downs Rockin’ the Downs concert series organizers announced their 2025 lineup. The series had ...

Caney, Kansas, is not known as a hotbed ... Morton’s pianist to teach them Morton’s music. Hayes played six-string banjo and sang. The band was a hit in San Francisco, though World War II ...

The HBCU band that performed in President Richard Nixon’s inaugural parade on Jan. 20, 1969 will be back in 2025 for the 60th ...

What started as a vision to gather high school music students from central Kansas for a one-day clinic and concert is now ...

Revisiting the music of The Avengers, an often overlooked San Francisco punk outfit who typified the DIY ethos of the movement without ever releasing an album.

The Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition began in 2012 and is open to any solo vocalists who are not signed to ...

Stacker consulted the Billboard Hot 100 to rank the longest-running #1 songs by the number of weeks they spent at the top ...

Those two aforementioned songs might be the most popular of the band’s career, but Kansas’ setlist spanned 11 of their 16 studio albums, ranging from hits like “Point of Know Return” to ...