Jazz News

First, an update from Denver Arts and Venues: the Five Points Jazz Festival on June 10th has posted the schedule for all 40 bands and all 10 stages. The musical details are now at the website ArtsandVenues.com.

(SOURCE: https://www.artsandvenuesdenver.com/events-programs/five-points-jazz-festival/2023-performers)
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The summer-long Vail Jazz Festival includes venues around Vail beginning in July with Wycliffe Gordon’s Funk Revolution at Donovan Pavilion, a timber and stone event space. Pianist Sullivan Fortner returns with his trio under the tent in Lionshead Village. Organist Tony Monaco presents a tribute to the dearly departed founder of Vail Jazz, Howard Stone. Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and her band Phoenix visit the Jazz Tent in August, as does vocalist Brianna Thomas and her band. Grace Kelly closes the Thursday night Jazz Tent season.

The 29th Annual Vail Jazz Party over Labor Day weekend features jam sessions, tributes and a House Band with John Clayton, Dick Oatts, Terell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Bill Cunliffe, and Lewis Nash. Special guests throughout the weekend include Renee Rosnes, Benny Bennack III, Niki Haris, Rene Marie and Tia Fuller among others!

(SOURCE: https://vailjazz.org/)
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Since 2014, Pathways To Jazz (a program of the Boulder County Arts Alliance) has awarded nearly 100 grants to jazz musicians for new, recorded works. More than 70 CD projects have been produced so far, many of which are heard on KUVO Jazz. The 2023 round of grant applications opened this morning (May 1), and it only took 15 minutes to receive the limit of 40 submissions. As KUVO Jazz Community Producer Abi Clark said, “The hustle game is strong here (in Colorado).”
(SOURCE: https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/pathways-to-jazz-guidelines)
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And a post script to our recent centennial celebration of “El Rey” Tito Puente. The connoisseur label Craft Recordings (Craft Latino) is taking pre-orders for a deluxe reissue of 1985’s “Mambo Diablo” with special guest George Shearing. It comes in 180-gram vinyl or HD digital, and a shirt if you want it. Official release is set for May 26.

(SOURCE: https://craftrecordings.com/blogs/news/tito-puente-mambo-diablo)

Homepage Image: Aug 4, 2022 Vail Jazz @Vail Square –  Samara Joy and Pasquale Grasso Quartet