Hot Club KC, named 2022 winner of Pitch Magazine's "Best Jazz Band" in Kansas City, brings the vibrant energy of vintage acoustic Django jazz with a Parisian twist!

​

Django jazz (formerly gypsy jazz) is rousing and stimulating and captures the hearts of an unsuspecting audience.

​

Violinist Adam Galblum performs with Hot Club KC (2022 Best Jazz Band of KC- Pitch Magazine), and Shakedown Strings, a nationally touring Grateful Dead tribute band. Adam apprenticed under Claude “Fiddler” Williams, KC’s legendary jazz violinist, and performs in multiple genres including jazz, classical, and Americana. He plays in the 1st violin section of the MahlerFest orchestra (Boulder, Col.) and is a 1st violin substitute with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and Topeka Symphony Orchestra. He keeps a full studio of private music students on violin, guitar, mandolin, and keyboard.

 

Clayton DeLong is a guitarist in Kansas City - graduating UMKC Conservatory in 2009 with a Bachelor’s of Performing Arts Degree - emphasis in Jazz. Clayton also has been booking live entertainment & throwing events for the past 10 years - along with his many different bands he performs with regularly. Joining the UMKC Alumni Association in 2020 - Clayton DeLong is now the President (June, 2024). Keeping Kansas City Jazz alive and well - growing with the community and teaching the next generation is a constant goal. Each moment is a chance to make an impact.


Topeka, KS-based singer/guitarist Riley Voth has been playing gypsy jazz since 2010. Starting with a rock band in high school playing classic rock, Riley studied jazz at the University of Kansas under Rod Fleeman. He moved to Nashville, studying music business at Belmont University before coming back home to finish his degree in guitar performance at Ottawa University under guitarist, Brian Baggett. His style combines elements of rock, finger style acoustic, classical and jazz. His particular interest in gypsy jazz led him to perform in Hot Club KC starting in the summer of 2020. While it is difficult to pinpoint one particular style Riley embodies, his approach with Hot Club explores the techniques that Django Reinhardt mastered in the 1930s. Considering himself a guitarist first, he also sings an assortment of jazz standards and modern songs with a cross-genre sensibility.


Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Alex Mallett has a rich and varied career in music. While in high school, he performed at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington competition. He studied jazz bass at McGill University in Montréal where he also played in the city’s rich jazz, pop, and global roots scenes. In NYC he performed indie rock, off broadway, and actively led a band as a songwriter/banjoist. He now performs regularly on Kansas City’s jazz scene and is the Deputy Director at Folk Alliance International, the world’s largest and leading membership organization for the folk music industry and community.

​