The Gott/Clay Quintet is a modern jazz group steeped in the rich legacies of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson and Lennie Tristano. Co-led by musical companions Daryl Gott and Taylor Clay, the group specializes in original material and fresh takes on jazz classics. Featuring Alejandro Castaño on drums, Alex Heffron on guitar and Gabe Rupe on bass. Limited live audience allowed by reservation only, masks strictly required. This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available…

Expeditions welcomes trumpeter Al Hood to the Muse Livestream series. As a freelance trumpet performer, he performs and records in and beyond the Colorado region, playing with the Denver Brass, the Ken Walker Jazz Sextet, the Aries Brass Quintet, and Conjuto Colores. This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available to view on Facebook and Youtube. Donations: Venmo @museperformancespace or Muse website donation 70% goes to musicians and 30% goes to helping the Muse pay the…

The Blue Cosmos is a quartet of student musicians from the Denver Metro Area. This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available to view on Facebook and Youtube. Donations: Venmo @museperformancespace or Muse website donation 70% goes to musicians and 30% goes to helping the Muse pay the rent.

Colorado music legend Hazel Miller is back, returning for a third time to the Backyard Concert Series. Hazel Miller isn’t just a great singer, she’s a force of nature. Her decades-long career includes numerous awards and honors, including opening for artists such as James Brown, The Temptations and Mel Torme. Hazel Miller Band perform an eclectic mix of jazz, R&B and blues. Anythink Backyard Concert Series | Presented by Xcel Energy Our longtime concert tradition continues this summer with three…

The Lucas Davis Quartet is a group of young musicians in the Boulder Denver Area. This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available to view on Facebook and Youtube. Donations: Venmo @museperformancespace or Muse website donation 70% goes to musicians and 30% goes to helping the Muse pay the rent.

Francisco Marques (Cavaquinho, Vocals) Carl Dixon (Percussion, Vocals) Bill Kopper (6 & 7-String Guitar, Bass) Greg LaLiberte (Horns, Vocals) Raoul Rossiter (Drums, Percussion, Vocals) Victor Mestas-Perez (Piano, Keyboards) Vincent Gonzalez (percussion, Vocals) Based in the Boulder and Denver area, GINGA is comprised of 7 distinguished musicians from various backgrounds. Steeped in the shared love and study of authentic Brazilian music and culture, the group has been dazzling audiences with their energy and musicianship for over a decade. Upbeat Brazilian classics are…

The Crystal Swing Band will transport you to the heyday of the swing era when couples danced cheek to cheek or jitterbugged on ballroom floors all over the country to the popular big bands. While that’s not possible for any of us to do right now, we invite you to “Swing Dance From Your Living Room” while the band plays your favorites. Dance like no one is watching! Playing the music of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie,…

Drawing inspiration from decades of experience in jazz, classical music, and world music traditions, the Nalanda Ensemble specializes in spontaneous composition , an intensely focused approach to improvisation, celebrating musical community in an exploration of the unknown. Elena Camerin Young: voice Khabu Doug Young: guitar & ukulele Bill McCrossen: bass, Guembri, Mbira & Kora Mark Miller: flute, saxophone & shakuhachi This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available to view on Facebook and Youtube. Donations: Venmo…

GRAMMY® Award-winning Pianist and NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis returns to the “Stage” with the monthly online performance series, “Saturday Salon” and will take place on the last Saturday of every month and will feature a 60-minute performance at 12 noon MDT and 1 pm CT and includes a 20 minute encore. Lewis will provide audiences with an exclusive concert experience streaming ticketed solo performances once a month on the platform, Stageit. The "Saturday Salon" will serve as an intimate…

Jason Malmberg saw the opportunity and began working on arrangements that would take some of the punk rock music of his childhood and set it in a modern jazz context. With the addition of Braxton Khan (BK) on drums and Heide Schmidt on vocals, both regulars in the Denver jazz scene, the group was ready to go. Tune in to hear the results in their premiere performance, a live stream from The Muse Performance Space, September 4th at 7:00 PM.…

The 1970s Jazz era was a truly inventive and exciting time! Many groups started to involve rock instruments like synthesizers, electric bass, and guitars with multiple effects. Saxophones and brass also used basic effects pedals for a variety of timbres and effects! The concert will feature Jeff Jenkins on piano and synthesizer, Mike Marlier on drums, Gonzalo Teppa on electric and stand up bass, and Pete Lewis on acoustic and electric saxes. The repertoire will be from the Brecker Brothers,…

GRAMMY® Award-winning Pianist and NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis returns to the “Stage” with the monthly online performance series, “Saturday Salon” and will take place on the last Saturday of every month and will feature a 50-minute performance at 1 pm CT / 12 noon MDT. This performance includes a 20 minute encore. Lewis will provide audiences with an exclusive concert experience streaming ticketed solo performances once a month on the platform, Stageit. The "Saturday Salon" will serve as an…

Expeditions is known for fun arrangements of well-known tunes and tasty original compositions. Pete Lewis’ masterful compositions and arrangements are the driving force, realized by the kind of ensemble playing that only comes from playing together for years. This band just loves to play together, and it shows! Pete Lewis, saxes; Adam Revell, piano; Jason Malmberg, bass; Clare Church, drums This concert will be streamed from the Muse. It will be available to view on Facebook and Youtube. Donations: Venmo…

For this streaming show Bassist Seth Lewis celebrates the release of his album “Go Your Own Way.” Seth is most often found supporting other artists as the bassist in their groups, but the recording and live performance presents music he has composed and arranged for a group of Colorado’s best musicians.  The group this evening includes Shawn Williams on trumpet, Austin Cebulski on saxophone, Tom Amend on Piano and Brian Claxton on drums. This dynamic ensemble brings mature creative chemistry…

The Spencer Zweifel Quintet is a dynamic ensemble that combines strong individual playing into a cohesive group sound. Inspired by the classic quintets led by Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Chick Corea and Dave Holland, Zweifel’s quintet draws from all corners of the jazz world. Swing, hard bop, free music, and the Great American Songbook come together for an exciting and fresh musical experience. The majority of the repertoire is originals by the band supplemented with standards that have personal meaning to…

Nocturne's Saturday Supper & Stream features Clay-Gott Chordless Quartet. Taylor Clay was born in Brooklyn, NY and began his musical journeys at the age of 13 and went on to study at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY. After completing his degree in Music Performance in 2012, he moved to Colorado to attend the Univeristy of Northern Colorado as a graduate student and teaching assistant. Taylor currently lives in Denver, Colorado works as a busy freelance musician. Saxophonist and…

A Nocturne holiday season tradition in its sixth year, we present a night of seasonal cheer that riffs on classic versions of Frank, Perry and Ella holiday arrangements, as well as select songs from Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas and beyond. Curated by Drew Morell and Scott Mattson. This evening celebrates the magic of the season with a little a dash of nostalgia atop some hard swinging music. Tom Amend - piano, Drew Morell - bass, Louisa Amend - vocals,  - guitar, Scott Mattson- drums (Details…

Saxophonist Harry Drabkin is a Berklee College of Music graduate as well as a faculty alumni where he performed in the Recording Band, the Faculty Jazz Ensemble and the Faculty Saxophone Quartet. His influences come from Miles, Coltrane, Cannonball and Charlie Mariano. He recently retired as Chief of Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina to return to Denver. Harry Drabkin - sax, Derek Banach - trumpet, Jack Dunlevie - piano, Kent McLagen - bass, Todd Reid - drums With the…

Jeremy Wendelin returns to Nocturne for a residence focused on the trio of saxophone, bass, and drums. This instrumentation, pioneered by Sonny Rollins, affords artists great freedom in exploring their material. The sound is simple, but the music is full of complexities; the players have freedom, but also more responsibility to create the right sound for each moment. In the years since Rollins’ early recordings, many artists have taken on this format, including Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman, Kenny…

Venezuelan bassist Gonzalo Teppa presents his quintet performing a collection of his compositions that draw from the wells of contemporary jazz, Latin American music (Venezuelan, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban), blues, free jazz and more. Gonzalo is a Nocturne Artist in Residency alumni and recently released his debut quintet recording (featuring this band) with much acclaim. GREG HARRIS - VIBRAPHONE/PIANO/PERCUSSION, ALEX HEFFRON - GUITAR, ANDREW WHEELOCK - DRUMS, IKE SPIVAK - SAX/FLUTE/CLARINET Nocturne presents Saturday Supper & Stream. Every Saturday night they…