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The JAS Labor Day Experience Gets a New Start

By A.H. Goldstein
Aug 28, 2014

The Jazz Aspen Snowmass nonprofit started throwing an eclectic music festival on Labor Day more than twenty years ago. Now it has expanded to three days, and this year includes headliners like Carrie Underwood and Fun. In this week's music feature, now posted on the Backbeat blog, A.H. Goldstein explores...
The JAS Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Shows Are Now an "Experience," Not a Festival

By A.H. Goldstein
Aug 27, 2014

The word "festival" carries some tricky connotations for the organizers of Jazz Aspen Snowmass, or JAS. For the past 23 years, they've used the term as a shorthand descriptor for the three-day concert series that falls on Labor Day. At first glance, that seems perfectly fitting. Every August, a faithful...
PREMIERE: Fierce Bad Rabbit's "Crystal Ball"

By A.H. Goldstein
May 6, 2014

Although frontman Chris Anderson moved to Boston last year, indie-rock outfit Fierce Bad Rabbit, originally from Fort Collins, hasn't broken up. On the contrary, the quartet is busy making music and playing gigs across the country. Even so, distance has affected the dynamic of the band and its members in...
Folk weirdo FaceMan commissions a life-sized Bukowski diorama for shows at Mutiny

By A.H. Goldstein
May 2, 2014

FaceMan, helmed by the uni-monikered frontman Steve, is just as interested in performance art as it is acoustic guitars. Case in point: the elaborate shark-shaped stage the band set up at Lost Lake last year, which added a theatrical dimension to the band's music (it also picked up an award...
Jazz superstar Steve Wiest hired as professor and orchestra director at DU

By A.H. Goldstein
May 1, 2014

The jazz program at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music is about to get a lot more competitive. Officials from the school's jazz studies and commercial music departments announced this week that Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist, composer and arranger Steve Wiest will join DU's faculty this fall as an...

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