The Blue Room (Jazz Club) - Kansas City, Missouri

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The Blue Room (Jazz Club) - Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City with Jazz and Blues..You don’t want to miss this wonderful music.

The American Jazz Museum’s Blue Room is a museum by day and a working jazz club at night. Four nights a week, the Blue Room resonates with the sweet sounds of Kansas City jazz.

Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the Blue Room was one of the hottest nightspots in the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District. Located in the Street Hotel, in its heyday the Blue Room featured some of the biggest names in entertainment. Today that legacy plays on as part of the American Jazz Museum; however, the name is the only thing that remains the same. Designed to resemble a nightclub from the 1930s, the Blue Room is a multifaceted exhibit focusing on the Kansas City connection to the evolution of jazz, featuring a wall of fame exhibiting the images of those local musicians that made the Kansas City-style swing.

Each of the nine tables are in fact display cases of rare artifacts from Kansas City’s musical heyday when scores of nightclubs were swinging with sounds of live music. While in the Blue Room, you can view "soundies" from a video jukebox that features performances of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller and John Coltrane.

Although smoking is prohibited in an effort to preserve the artifacts, alcoholic beverages are available at the bar and an appetizer buffet is available during Indigo Hour Friday evenings. Since its opening in September 1997, the club has built a loyal and ever growing following. Like its predecessor, today’s Blue Room is one of the liveliest venues in the world with a strong heritage and a key part of sustaining Kansas City’s place as the jazz mecca.

Open 5-11pm Mon. & Thu., 5pm-1am Fri., 7pm-1am Sat. and Closed Tue-Wed.

PHONE: 816.474-2929

ADDRESS: 1600 E 18th St. Kansas City, MO

PRICING: $5 on Friday and Saturday