Westword's Artopia 2019 on March 1 at 5:30 pm at The Church Night Club in Denver is set to be a real blast from the past into the future, filled with the sights and sounds of Colorado’s hip-hop scene from the ’70s to today…and beyond.

“All In” Winter Pledge Drive second drawing winners are announced! Thank you, everyone, for participating!

Ken Fox
Robert Karow & James Smith
Lynn Pender
Mary Buirgy

Our membership team will be contacting all of the winners. Winners were selected from pledges from yesterday's pledges from noon to midnight. All Jazz messengers were included and those who completed the drawing entry only form.

Thank you! And congratulations!

Freddy Cole Quartet will pay homage to what would have Nat King Cole’s 100th birthday. Freddy Cole grew up in a musical family. His mother taught music to him and his older siblings. Cole’s older brother was Nat “King” Cole, who was 14 years older than Freddy. Cole is 86 now and he’s playing a tribute to the musical legacy of his older brother.

MoJoJazz plays the cool jazz of the 1950s & ’60s. Music of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock & more.

Don West – piano, Dan Gomby – saxophone, Brian Smalley – bass,  Mike Garnier – drums

La Cour French Bistro & Jazz Club presents
MoJoJazz
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 to 10:00 pm
 

They explore Gypsy jazz, blues, and American jazz standards, and bring original compositions and play homage to heroes like Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller. Swing dance with La Pompe, a classic "Hot Club" style jazz band.

Mery Cafe presents
LAPOMPE
Thursday, February 21 - 8 pm
$10 cover charge

Etta Jones was a marvelous vocalist with a long outstanding career, she is fondly remembered for her collaborations with Houston Person that endured almost 30 years. Etta was born in Aiken, South Carolina in 1928 and raised in Harlem. Like so many other African-American singers she began singing in the choir of her family’s church, she admired Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington as an adolescent. While still a teenager, the noted bandleader and composer Buddy Johnson took her on the road with his band to alternate vocals with Buddy’s sister Ella Johnson who also served as her guardian.

The band, through a jazz lens, will play a wide mix of Stoltzman’s arrangements of contemporary songs from Stevie Wonder’s Tell Me Something Good to Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror, to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. These nights will have high energy, thoughtful improvisation, and superb musicianship.

Peter John Stoltzman - piano, Kim Dawson - vocals, Braxton Kahn - drums, Gonzalo Teppa - bass

New Orleans old-school jazz comes to Denver with the Uptown Orchestra. Under the direction of trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, and anchored by Dirty Dozen Brass Band founder Roger Lewis on bari sax, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra celebrates the musical heritage  of New Orleans, performing blues and standards that combine riff-playing, spontaneous arrangements and the New Orleans second-line groove.

Make a donation of $240 or $20 per month during KUVO's Winter Pledge Drive and receive a pair tickets to the 9 pm set!

At age 24, Veronica Swift is now being recognized around the country as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene.

Donate $120 during KUVO's Winter Pledge Drive and receive a pair tickets to the 9 pm set!

The Ken Walker Sextet is a little like the full moon, except the KWS is more dependable and swings harder. The full moon arcs gracefully across the sky. It’s nice, but does it make you snap your fingers? Walker and his band evoke (but don’t demand) that response.

Tickets for two available for $120 one-time donation or $10 monthly donation - DONATE

Featuring: Ken Walker-bass, Dave Corbus-guitar, Al Hood-trumpet, Paul Romaine-drums, Jeff Jenkins-piano, and Peter Sommer-sax