Events for June 22, 2024

A wide variety of week-long, action-packed ensembles & classes. Registration is now OPEN. CCJA's Summer Institute offers something for everyone, from middle schoolers to adult musicians. Immerse yourself in topic-based courses and action-packed themed and jazz ensembles for a week at a time! Summer Institute classes are easy to mix and match - students can […]

3-4:15 pm: Dexter Payne Quintet plays Brazilian choro 4:45-6 pm: West Coast tenor saxophonist Brian Levy and trumpeter Greg Gisbert play the music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Headliner — 6:15-7:30 pm: Boston-based vocal virtuoso Dominique Eade with the Keith Waters Trio 8-9:30 pm: Salsa Dance Party with Quemando Bring your chairs!  

The internationally recognized open-air festival, the JAS Experience, takes place at Snowmass Town Park with the spectacular Elk Mountain Range as a backdrop. Catering to crowds of up to 10,000 people daily, the festival features one main stage and one side stage, the JAS Village, including food, craft, and merchandise vendors, a kid’s corner, and […]

Wil Swindler is a saxophonist, composer, and winner of the 2008 Gil Evans Fellowship, and educator based in the Denver Front Range area. Mr. Swindler holds a B.M. from the University of North Texas and has received commissions from West Point's Jazz Knights, The USAF Falconaires, Denver University, Colorado State University. As a performer, he has […]

The Tenia Nelson Trio (affectionately known as TNT ) has been bringing a breath of jazz to a wide breadth of genres at dazzle for a number of years including some particular highlights as RnB with Swing and Jazz on the Western Range. Well this marks the Trios first journey to the Silver Screen. In this […]

After a successful tour of India last month, Rob Mullins returns to the US to perform with his trio at Full Cycle Café & Bar. This will mark Rob’s debut of his “Best of the Trio” album CD which will be available that evening. Supported by BK Kahn on drums and Tony Golden on upright […]

Adrian Herrera Jazz Trio is a modern jazz trio led by the Renown Colombian Jazz pianist Adrian Herrera who is the current director of the piano and commercial keyboard program at Colorado Mesa University . This concert is the premier and release of the first American album "HOPE" of this trio formed originally in 2016 […]

Traditional acoustic pre-war blues, featuring National slide guitar, harmonica and vocals. Delta blues, country blues, and folk blues based on the styles from the 1920's and 1930’s. This is the old American blues music that inspired Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, and Ry Cooder, and an essential branch of the jazz family tree.

Los Mocochetes is a Xicano/Funk band from the ancestral, occupied and unceded lands of the Tsis tsis'tas¹, Hinono'eiteen², Ka'igwu³, Weenuchiu⁴, Anasazi⁵, Newe⁶, Diné⁷, Ndee⁸, Inday⁸, and Dine'é⁸ (commonly referred to as Cheyenne¹, Arapahoe², Kiowa³, Ute⁴, Pueblo⁵, Shoshone⁶, Navajo⁷, Apache⁸) and other peoples now known as Denver, CO. With deep roots from the Mora Valley in […]

Wil Swindler is a saxophonist, composer, and winner of the 2008 Gil Evans Fellowship, and educator based in the Denver Front Range area. Mr. Swindler holds a B.M. from the University of North Texas and has received commissions from West Point's Jazz Knights, The USAF Falconaires, Denver University, Colorado State University. As a performer, he has […]