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Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Rocky Mountain PBS!

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Rocky Mountain PBS is thrilled to offer rich programming for Jazz Appreciation Month, and not just because they're such big fans of KUVO JAZZ. Jazz is a uniquely American art…

Gift of Jazz — A Centennial Tribute to Max Roach

  Gift of Jazz presents A Centennial Tribute to Max Roach on Sunday, January 21 at 7 pm at The Muse Performance Space in Lafayette. Max Roach (1924-2007) is known…

The Night Beat Features Max Roach

As PBS will be airing “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” as part of its American Masters’ “Thought Leaders” series of documentaries on Friday evening October 6, the Wednesday evening…

Happy Birthday, Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz drummer and composer, one of the most influential and widely recorded modern percussionists. A founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of…

Long Play on the Nightside

Listen to Long Plays during the 11 o’clock hour of The Nightside with Andy O’…these special extensive compositions needed a deeper listen. "Churn" (15:23) From a 1993 eponymous recording by…

Money Jungle Double Drummer Series

In September of 1962 three great band leaders: Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Duke Ellington gathered in the studio to embark on a musical adventure and make their mark on…

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