Green Lady Lounge and Black Dolphin in Kansas City, MO

[Teasing the Korean]

Should you ever find yourself in Kansas City - which is a very hip town, incidentally - you simply have to go to these two jazz clubs, which are next door to each other on Grand Boulevard.  They are owned by the same owner.   

Green Lady has an upstairs and downstairs, with acts playing on both floors.  Black Dolphin is one floor.

The decor in these places is fantastic.  They are both very dark.  Dolphin as an MCM vibe, black, orange, and silver; Green Lady has something of a decadent hellfire club vibe, with lots of dark reds and black.  I saw mainly two acts: Ken Lovern's organ trio (B3, guitar, drums) upstairs at Green Lady; Brian Ward's organ trio (B3, trombone, drums) at the Dolphin.  I briefly saw Tim Whitmer's quartet (he plays piano) at the Dolphin, and another guitarist (Danny Embrey?) downstairs at Green Lady.

The cover for each place is $5, so if you pay the cover for both, you can go back and forth all night and have yourself a fabulous time.  

There are YouTube vids of both places, and Kansas City Radio has a weekly live show on Saturday evenings.  The archive is here: https://kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/live-at-green-lady-lounge/. For the radio show, the acts play all originals, but don't let that deter you.

Speaking of Kansas Public Radio, I have bee a online friend of Program Director Darrell Brogdon for 26 years, and finally met him in person for the first time.

I will post pix of the fabulous decor later, but I'm sure there are tons of images on the InterWebz.

If I lived in Kansas City, these two places would get me into some serious trouble.

 

 

 

[Eric]

Hey TTK, had no idea you were in town.  Yes Green Lady is the bomb.  Look forward to going with my son when he is in town for the holidays!

[Teasing the Korean]

On 11/10/2023 at 8:48 PM, Eric said:

Hey TTK, had no idea you were in town.  Yes Green Lady is the bomb.  Look forward to going with my son when he is in town for the holidays!

I would have given a shout out to KC Organissimo members, but I was there for work in the daytime, and got together with friends in the evenings.  Hopefully next time!