The Beatles v. The Stones a Musical Showdown played at the Oriental Theater on Sunday January 13th to a packed house. The show will  also be playing on January 15th at Lincoln Center in Ft. Collins and at the Boulder Theater on January 23rd. 

The stock show is in town and that means Denver is full of cowboys and cowgirls, even more than normal. So the Vinyl Vault takes its cue and this week presents “Hillbilly Jazz” a 1975 double album featuring a number of jazz standards done up with fiddle and steel guitar. We’ll hear Ellington’s “C Jam Blues,” Ray Noble’s “Cherokee,” “Sentimental Journey,” some Benny Goodman and the blues standard “Sittin’ On Top of the World.” The album was more or less the brainchild of virtuoso fiddler Vassar Clements.

Despite its rather inelegant name, there is nothing at all inelegant about the music generated by the M.F. Production’s Latin Jazz All Stars that appears at Dazzle in the historic Baur’s building on Thursday at 6:30 and 9 p.m.

The Annie Booth Trio will take to the Nocturne stage to perform the music of The Beatles through the jazz lens.

Have you been in yet to check out the live jazz at Spangalang Brewery on Wednesday nights? The fantastic and talented Gabriel Mervine and friends will bring the music, and as always, Spangalang has your beer needs taken care of and ZIVIX Five Points will take care of your munchies. Music starts at 7 pm, no cover charge just great JAZZ!

KUVO members...you get $1 off a full pour when you present your KUVO Member Card at Spangalang Brewery!

The Ron LeGault - Harry Drabkin Quintet (Derek Banach - trumpet, Ken Walker - bass, Andreus Schmid - drums) performs music of Charles Mingus and Charlie Mariano on Thursdays in January.  Mariano was an accomplished sax player (who led successful groups of his own) and collaborated with the legendary Mingus in the early 1960s and was the featured soloist on the classic “Black Saint and Sinner Lady” album. The unique and vibrant music of these two icons will be explored by this talented quintet throughout.

The Organization is a modern organ led band. Based in the tradition of the likes of Larry Young, Jimmy Smith, and Jack McDuff, and pulsing to the heartbeat of current musical trends.

Jeff Jenkins – organ, Dave Corbus – guitar, Mike Abbott – guitar, Mike Marlier – drums

Dazzle @ Baur's presents
The Organization "In Blue" album release
Friday, January 18 - 7:00 pm
Tickets here!
 

In this series, I’ve been writing about local jazz musicians. Today, our local jazz musician is a trombone player who has lived in New York since 1983. Mark Patterson was raised near Evergreen, went to Colorado schools, and graduated from University of Denver back when the music program was taught in the basement of the administration building. His education at DU spanned everything from orchestra to every size of jazz group and even some opera. Working with Aaron Copland was a highlight for him there.