GUITARIST ON A MISSION — Take Five Coffee + Bar presents the Adam Schlozman Trio at 8 p.m. Friday, March 13. The website says the coffee bar’s ongoing quest is “to find and showcase the best music in Kansas City southern suburbs.” In promoting Schlozman’s appearance this week, the website says “It’s been our pleasure to watch him develop from our earliest days doing jazz at Take Five when he was a high-school phenom tearing up Pat Metheny tunes with the Know Idea Trio, to become, in just five years, a sought-after pro in a town rich with phenomenal guitarists. From one local jazz writer, he’s already drawing comparisons with the great Steve Cardenas. Come see him lead his own trio with bassist Joel Stratton and drummer Matt Leifer.”
Schlozman currently attends University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and studies jazz performance under the direction of Bobby Watson and Dan Thomas, as well as jazz guitarist Rod Fleeman and classical guitarist Douglas Niedt. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}In addition to his appearance this week at Take Five, he performs in various groups around the Kansas City area as a freelance musician in places like the Blue Room and the Green Lady Lounge.
Take Five Coffee + Bar is located in Overland Park in the Corbin Park shopping center behind the Von Maur department store. The address is 6601 W. 135th St. There is a $5 cover charge.
RECOGNIZING THE WORK OF OUTSTANDING WOMEN — Shirley Bush Helzberg is one of seven exceptional women from the Metropolitan Kansas City area making up the inaugural class of honorees to be recognized in the new Starr Women’s Hall of Fame. The Starr Women’s Hall of Fame is a community-based effort to honor outstanding women past and present, from all walks of life, from Greater Kansas City in order to preserve the history of their accomplishments and to encourage and inspire women. The honorees also include Marjorie Powell Allen, Kay Barnes, Myra J. Christopher, Adele Hall, Dorothy H. Johnson and Martha Jane Phillips Starr. The seven women will be formally inducted into the Starr Women’s Hall of Fame on March 13 during a special luncheon celebration at UMKC.
'THREATENED BEAUTY’ OPENS IN JERUSALEM — If you are planning a visit to Israel soon, check out Kansas City native Andi Arnovitz’s “Threatened Beauty” exhibit at the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. It opens March 16 and run through May 15. Here’s a description: “Like a flying carpet, Andi Arnovitz’s latest works transport us to a world of gem-like color, where aesthetics and destruction meet in a deceptively beautiful dystopia. Her current show will contain some 30 works that deal directly or indirectly with subjects on the world’s mind right now, a nuclear Iran and the reign of terror and destruction by ISIS.”{/mprestriction}
