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The Ben Markley Quintet

Ben Markley is an accomplished pianist, band leader and composer/arranger, active throughout the Rocky Mountain Front Range. He has performed with Brian Lynch, Greg Osby, Eddie Henderson, Terell Stafford, George…

Big Chief Donald Harrison

Dazzle at Baur’s presents two sets featuring Big Chief Donald Harrison on August 12 at 7 pm and 9 pm. NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. is…

Three Pianists

Three pianists born on August 16, Bill Evans, 1929, Mal Waldron, 1925 , and Carl Perkins, 1928. Bill Evans was born in Plainfield, NJ, on Aug. 16, 1929, to a…

Local Musician Spotlight: Vlad Girshevich

Candace LeGault

How do you spell Piano Brilliance in Russian? V-L-A-D! I met with Vlad Girshevich, where I learned about a guy who’s on a totally different plane from me and from…

The Nightside — The Double Feature

This Sunday on The Nightside with Andy O', our new segment called The Double Feature will concentrate on two of Jazz music's more lyrical practitioners Bill Evans and Pat Metheny.…

Renditions Dinner: Cannonball Adderly

What happens when an iconic artist or recording inspires a chef and sommelier? RENDITIONS - an interactive five course dinner event where the art of gastronomy and music collide. A few…

Norman Provizer's Jazz Notes - DownBeat Poll

Norman Provizer

Recently the August 2022 issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands, mailboxes, and computers. And it contained the 70th annual critics poll with voting from 114 jazz critics from around the…

The Alejandro Castaño Organ Trio

We invite you to join us for two special sets of jazz, soul, funk and boogaloos with Alejandro Castaño Organ Trio. This stellar lineup features Tom Amend on B3 organ and Steve Kovalcheck on guitar. Alejandro Castaño is…

After a pandemic disruption, Newport Jazz Festival makes a poignant, euphoric return

Early in his set at the Newport Jazz Festival on Sunday afternoon, Jason Moran left his station at the piano, stepping over to a microphone. "I've been thinking about what…

Swindler, Sommer and Mervine Sextet

This brand new project, created for the Nocturne stage, is a collective of elite Colorado musicians that celebrates the jazz art form through impeccable arrangements of straight-ahead and original repertoire,…

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