Chalis O'Neal

Doors 9pm ~ Showtime 10p ~ 21+ ~ $10

Chalis O'Neal is an artist and musician born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. O’Neal picked up the trumpet at the age of eleven and began studying music at Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts. Chalis majored in Jazz Studies with a minor in Classical Trumpet under the direction of Jazz legend Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri Kansas City. O’Neal’s main influences range from Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Roy Hargrove, Harold O’Neal to Soul and R&B. His playing style creates a soulful and creative approach to improvisation, bringing a dynamic energy to each performance.

O’Neal’s eclectic style ranges from jazz venues to theatre work with the New Theatre Restaurant performing and acting in the Broadway show of The Buddy Holly Story and also recording with hip hop Artist Tech N9ne displaying O’neal’s diversity amongs all musical genres. O’Neal also has burlesque experience with Quixotic Cirque Nouveau who are known for thier visually stunning performances.

O’Neal has been considered a Trend setter and a Major influence amongs the jazz community in Kansas City, changing the narrative of the Modern Jazz Musician. O’Neal released his debut album “Flirting” in 2021 and it has recheaced critical acclaim. The Jazz Ambassador Magizine referred The album as “innovative, Bright, original and unified as a collective”.

O’Neal has had the opportunity to perform with artists like Bobby Watson, Jeff '“Tain” Watts, Harold O’Neal, Tivon Pennicott, Marcus Strickland, Stephen Scott, Ben Williams, Lewis Nash, Curtis Lundy, Tech N9ne, Lonnie McFadden, Dan Thomas, Sullivan Fortner, Lisa Henry, and David Basse.

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