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2000 Stories by Thomas Peake

• All's Dope on the Western Front

  published November 9, 2000

  Albert Ayler would be 'acid jazz' to me," says William Yale, bassist for the Denver- and Boulder-based United Dope Front. Ironically, the point... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published May 4, 2000

  With the release of Faith, a new CD on the Cadence Jazz label, the Boulder Creative Music Ensemble, which plays Saturday, May 6, at... More >>

• Sue Garner and Rick Brown

  published April 27, 2000

  Still is an unlikely choice to keep the woofers cranking and the party raging. It's not particularly therapeutic for those who... More >>

• Tara Jane O'Neil

  published April 13, 2000

  Tara Jane O'Neil's solo debut is many things at once, all of them unusual. It is the soundtrack to seasonal affective disorder, the clamor of a... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published April 6, 2000

  Drummer Tom Tilton and pianist Joe Bonner continue a 25-year relationship with Spring Impressions in Jazz, Friday, April 7, and... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published March 30, 2000

  Munly, aka Jay Munly, aka Jayson Munly Thompson, Friday, March 31, with Maraca 5-0 and Hoochie at the Raven, plies a variety of... More >>

• Ron Miles Trio

  published March 16, 2000

  On his fifth album as leader, recorded roughly one year ago, Denver trumpeter Ron Miles returns to a classic trio approach for the first time... More >>

• Orchestral Maneuvers in the Works

  published March 9, 2000

  The Creative Music Works Orchestra took its name from the small, nonprofit presenter of concerts and educational workshops that sponsors it,... More >>

• Eric Gaffney

  published March 2, 2000

  Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Eric Gaffney is, with Lou Barlow, a founding member of the erratic, prolific and inexplicably popular... More >>

• Welcome to the Terror Drone

  published February 3, 2000

  For a public that ordinarily associates politics in music with can't-miss issues such as world hunger and rocking the vote, j.frede's theories... More >>