Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we thought clearly won 2025. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November.

Before director Dustin Phillips completed his project Sounds of the City this year, finding information on the city’s historical involvement in the evolution of music was tough to come across. Now, Kansas Citians can turn to the 2025 documentary that historically lists Kansas City’s influence within music culture since the 1920s.

The doc hits on all of KC’s guidance in the subculture from the early jazz pioneers such as Bennie Moten, Count B

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