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Jazz News
First, an update from Denver Arts and Venues: the Five Points Jazz Festival on June 10th has posted the schedule for all 40 bands and all 10 stages. The musical…
Jazz News
Jazz in downtown Denver – old and new! Bassist Mark Diamond and friends have been holding it down on Thursday nights at the farm-to-table restaurant Terra, on 14th, across from…
Jazz News: Tenia Nelson – Jazz Hero! CU Boulder’s Conference on World Affairs has jazz, Westword’s “Best of Denver” jazz nods
The Jazz Journalists Association is out with their list of “Jazz Heroes” in markets around the country. We’re delighted that pianist-composer-educator Tenia Renee Nelson gets the honor for Denver this…
Westword: Best Free Jazz Night Bar 404
When Bar 404 opened in December 2021 in the former home of Rory's Tavern, owners Kerry O'Brien and Marty Varela were eager to start a music program. Enter jazz veteran…
Jazz News: Tia Fuller mentors middle-schoolers, Festivals go wide-still feature jazz, Jazz=fashion forward
How is Aurora-bred alto saxophonist Tia Fuller spending Women’s History Month? With a teaching artist-in-residency for 4th through 8th-grade female music students in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The Mid-Jersey News reports…
Jazz documentaries, RIP Manuel Molina, Carl Saunders
Making the rounds on the film festival circuit, Jim Burns’ documentary that spotlights the music of four rising young jazz stars is called “She’s Got Jazz.” It features four women,…
David Booker benefit, Sonny Rollins sells catalog, Jazz artists join Arts and Letters academy
Colorado blues legend and former KUVO host David Booker has medical bills piling up due to cancer treatment, so friends and blues lovers are producing a benefit concert, coming up…
Jazz News: Super Bowl music, Intl. Blues Challenge, Celia Cruz on US quarters!
First, some musical notes from the Super Bowl. Before the game even began, Broadway star and recent Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph laid the people out with her version of…
Bill Frisell returns to Denver
Well, well… look who’s on the cover of the February 2023 Guitar Player magazine… Bill Frisell! In the interview, the Denver East High School graduate cites his first guitar hero,…
Jazz News: Javon Jackson nominated, Nocturne noticed, Hazel Miller inducted
Denver-raised saxophonist Javon Jackson was nominated for an NAACP Image award for his jazz, gospel and poetry project called “The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni.” Other nominees in the “Outstanding…
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