Discover: Jazz News
Jazz News – Awards, Winners, and Kudos
Jazz has a few big nights, but they’re scattered like rumors, relegated to Sunday afternoon at the Grammy Awards, or the occasional jazz legend honored by the Kennedy Center. There’s…
Inaugural Jazz Music Awards: Celebrating the Spirit of Jazz
The Inaugural Jazz Music Awards to bestow special honors to Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Ambrose Akinmusire, Henry Threadgill, Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds, and James H. Patterson. The Awards Ceremony highlights…
What Makes a Good Jam Session?
This is Jazz News, a look at what’s news in jazz for Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. It has been said that the most authentic, organic expression of this music is…
Joey DeFrancesco, driving force on the Hammond organ, dies at 51
Joey DeFrancesco, who brought the richly enveloping sound of the Hammond B-3 organ roaring back into the jazz mainstream in the early 1990s, reigning as its preeminent ace for more…
Dazzle: Installing Jazz at the Arts Complex
An announcement from Dazzle: We are so excited to move to 1080 14th Street (the corner of 14th & Arapahoe St.) to become a part of the Denver Performing Arts…
After a pandemic disruption, Newport Jazz Festival makes a poignant, euphoric return
Early in his set at the Newport Jazz Festival on Sunday afternoon, Jason Moran left his station at the piano, stepping over to a microphone. "I've been thinking about what…
Charles "Charlie" Burrell Portrait Unveiling
On December 4, 2021, at 7 pm, the Colorado Symphony honors Charles "Charlie" Burrell, the pioneering double bassist, with a portrait unveiling in Boettcher Concert Hall. The portrait will be…
A Love Supreme Certified Platinum
November 10, 2021 Today, in a beautiful postscript to a brilliant and all-too-short life and career, Coltrane’s masterpiece, 1965’s “A Love Supreme,” has been certified platinum by the RIAA for…
Vail Jazz Party Celebrates the Vail Jazz Workshop All-Stars this Labor Day Weekend
Vail, Colorado - The Vail Jazz Party is set to return this Labor Day weekend with performances beginning Thursday, September 2 through Monday, September 6. The event marks the end…
Trombonist Curtis Fuller—RIP, Aged 86
The late Curtis Fuller had several connections to Denver and Colorado. Mr. Fuller visited KUVO Jazz several times and played in our former Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio at our…
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