This Weekend at the Blue Room
October 23–26, 2026
Big Luke & The Soul Disciples, winners of the Kansas City Blues Society’s 2023 Road to Memphis band contest, open Friday at Indigo Hour. That night saxophonist Adam Larson brings his quartet; DownBeat gave his album With Love, From Chicago 4.5 stars. Saturday is Sonderluss Soul’s first time at the Blue Room. The band has harmonica and steel pan in its lineup and calls its sound “genre-less.” Loren Broaddus hosts Monday’s jam on French horn; Plastic Sax said his June album, Blackout!!, proves he’s a top-tier talent. Big Luke & The Soul Disciples, Adam Larson, and Loren Broaddus all played here within one week in August.
This Weekend’s Lineup
Friday, October 23
Indigo Hour: Big Luke & The Soul Disciples — 5:30 pm ($5; AJM members free)
Adam Larson Quartet — 8:30 pm & 10 pm ($10 per show)
Saturday, October 24
Sonderluss Soul — 8:30 pm & 10 pm ($10 per show)
Monday, October 26
Monday Night Jam Session: Loren Broaddus — 7 pm ($10; AJM members, musicians & students free)
Indigo Hour: Big Luke & The Soul Disciples — Friday, 5:30 pm
Adrian Wilson founded the band and sings lead. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, singing in the church choir, and he credits his grandfather for his love of the blues. In January 2024, on the band’s first trip to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, they played Club 152 on Beale Street and made the semifinals, and the Kansas City Blues Society sent them back as its band entry in 2025. Their own bio says they can switch from blues to smooth jazz, Motown, R&B, funk, and even country. $5; AJM members free.
Tickets for Big Luke & The Soul Disciples at 5:30 →
Adam Larson Quartet — Friday, 8:30 pm & 10 pm
In 2015 the U.S. State Department picked Adam Larson’s quartet as one of ten ensembles for its American Music Abroad program, and the band spent 35 days touring the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Benin, and Ghana. Larson grew up in Normal, Illinois, started saxophone at 11, and spent 11 years on the New York scene before moving to Kansas City in 2019. His “With Love” trilogy is named for Chicago, Kansas City, and New York; DownBeat gave the Chicago record 4.5 stars and the New York record four. He’s made nine albums as a leader. $10 per show.
Sonderluss Soul — Saturday, 8:30 pm & 10 pm
Bassist Charlie Harris founded Sonderluss Soul, and the band lists Bill Thompson on harmonicas and Marcus Rattler on percussion and steel pan. They play originals drawn from funk, Latin, rock, jazz, and classical. Harris has played for years with Nashville saxophonist David Bosviet, and in 2023 the two sold out a Kansas City concert promoted by the Folly Theater. Several of the band’s dates have been benefits, for Hope House at Knuckleheads and for Honor Flight Network at Callsign Brewing. $10 per show.
Get Saturday seats for Sonderluss Soul →
Monday Night Jam Session: Loren Broaddus — Monday, 7 pm
Loren Broaddus has called the French horn “the panda of the jazz world.” He’s from Springfield, Missouri, and moved to Kansas City in 2023. He made Blackout!! with bassist Andrew Voggesser and drummer Matt Robertson, and on the track “Sling” he speaks a poem by his father, also named Loren Broaddus, who wrote a book about Newt Allen and his Kansas City Monarchs. Monday he plays the featured set at 7; after that, anyone who signed up at the door can sit in. $10; AJM members, musicians, and students free.
Big Luke & The Soul Disciples and Adam Larson on Friday, Sonderluss Soul on Saturday, and Loren Broaddus with his horn at Monday’s jam. See you at the Blue Room.
The Blue Room · 1600 E 18th St, Kansas City, MO 64108
Full calendar and tickets: americanjazzmuseum.org/blue-room