Jazz News: Summer swing dancing; 1st Friday Jazz Hop; DAES; Lettuce – CSO concert film
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The summertime City Park Jazz schedule is underway, with a well-earned reputation as the best Sunday night hang under the open sky you can imagine.
But there are other summer jazz hangs, like the “Swingin’ Under the Stars” event, Saturday nights through Labor Day at Little Man Ice Cream – at the Highlands location on 16th Street overlooking I-25. Swingin’ Denver is providing free Lindy Hop dance lessons at 7:30, and the live music begins at 8 p.m. The Reid Poole Swingtet plays on June 7. The lineup is at Swingin' Denver. (SOURCE: Swingin' Denver - Under The Stars)
And don’t forget the First Friday Jazz Hop coming up this June 6. Eight venues all up-and-down Welton Street, beginning at 5 p.m. and going late into the evening, wrapping up with KUVO Jazz Odyssey host Moe Velez DJing a 10 p.m. to midnight set at the Welton Room at 26th and Welton. (The Full Lineup at: Five Points BID)
Let’s catch up with a quartet that played in the Bonfils-Stanton Studio while they were all still in high school. DAES, spelled D-A-E-S, stands for the initials of the players’ first names, and three of the four are in college studying music. Drummer Declan Scully aka “GOLDICHOPS,” is at NYU. Bassist Aesop Pelta-Tiller is entering his last year at the Denver School of the Arts. Elias Earl on vibes is at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Joel Ross. Scarlet Before-Horses is at the Berklee School of Music.
DAES is performing in the “NextUp” emerging talent series with Gift of Jazz on Sunday, June 8 at Two Moons Music Hall. (SOURCE: Gift of Jazz)
Tracking new technologies for music, our favorite future funk band Lettuce is rolling out their concert film collab with the Colorado Symphony via a platform called VEEPS. The film premiered on VEEPS last week, and you’ll find other live concert footage, documentaries, and conversations with artists like Laufey, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, Gary Clark Jr., and other, more mainstream fare. (SOURCE: VEEPS)
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