Jazz News: Jaleel Shaw paints with music; Jazz cabaret at the golf course; Coltrane jam session at Monolith Brewing
This is Jazz News, a look at what’s news in jazz, music, and the arts.
Let me put a fine point on it. Jazz IS news – a transmission of cultural information that comes from current events, history, folklore. Case in point, the latest album from saxophonist Jaleel Shaw. Downbeat magazine unpacks the influences on Shaw’s latest album “Painter of the Invisible:” Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel “Invisible Man,” writer James Baldwin, 12-year-old police shooting victim Tamir Rice (a musical way to say his name), and even Shaw’s grandmothers sparked compositions.
Revealing the musical influences on his work, KUVO’s Kim Berry got Shaw to share his Top Five records of all time. Just five. Shaw’s picks are fascinatingly diverse, and his commentary appears on the KUVO website. SOURCES: DownBeat News / Jaleel Shaw) (KUVO.org / Take 5 with Jaleel Shaw)
We love seeing jazz show up in unexpected places out in the wild. Boulder jazz impresario Suter Du Bose is producing “An Evening of Jazz Cabaret with actress/singer/fashionista Mafalda Minozzi and guitarist Paul Ricci” this Saturday, September 27. Minozzi and Ricci bounce between Italy, Brazil, and the U.S., sharing their fresh arrangements and improvisations of Brazilian, French, Italian, and American classics.
The location is Ironwood Bar & Grille, inside the Flatirons Golf Course clubhouse on East Arapahoe Road. So make your reservation today!
7:30 p.m. Seating and Dinner
8-9:30 p.m. Showtime
Cover Charge $20
Buona divertiti!
We’ve been observing jazz centennials for years on KUVO. It’s a great excuse to revisit the giants of the genre, and as we cruise the 2020s, more and more big names we recognize from the golden age of jazz will come to the fore.
Like John Coltrane on September 23. In fact, Trane’s centennial is next year, with many other jazz greats born in 1926. So stay tuned for that. This year, on Tuesday, the 23rd, Monolith Brewing in Denver hosts one of the many and growing jazz jams.
The Ivory Jones Jazz Collective makes up the core of this John Coltrane tribute jam - Jeremy Wendelin on saxophones, Kevin Lufkin on keys, Andrew Rose on bass, and Chris Rose on drums. Monolith Brewing is at 1290 South Broadway at Louisiana Ave.
SOURCE: Monolith Brewing
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