Guitarist Marc Ribot, who’s worked with heavies like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, says playing music is all about what you do with your limitations, and playing acoustic guitar, which he’ll do when he plays two solo sets at Dazzle this Saturday, has definite limitations.
There’s some virtuoso playing by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quartet on his new double album, A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard. But Akinmusire says he doesn’t remember a lot about playing during his stint at New York’s legendary jazz venue last year.
“It’s not a band like most bands,” says King Crimson bassist Tony Levin.
If paranormal is defined as “other than normal,” that pretty much sums up Alice Cooper’s five-decade career. Cooper, who’s performing in Denver Monday, June 12, takes it a step further when he says, “My whole life has been paranormal.”
By the time Jack DeJohnette and his family moved from Manhattan to the Hudson River Valley in the early ‘70s, the masterful jazz drummer had worked with Bill Evans and Charles Lloyd and recorded with Miles Davis on albums, including the 1970 jazz-rock watershed release, Bitches Brew.
Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist.
To help you plan your calendar, we’ve selected ten of our favorite summer music festivals in Colorado, which run the gamut from jazz and blues to punk and hard rock, with some EDM and classical mixed in.
It’s been five decades since guitarist Bill Frisell played his first jazz tune in public as a junior at East High School.
After finishing classes at Bear Creek High School on Thursday, June 10, 1971, Steve Baum, who had just turned sixteen, and a few of his high school buddies drove straight to Red Rocks Amphitheatre to see Jethro Tull. Little did they know, tear gas would soon be burning their eyes.
A venue barred musicians in Memphis-based psych-rock band Spaceface from using a smoke machine at a Saint Louis gig two years ago.
Tonight, Dazzle is closing its doors for the last time at 930 Lincoln Street, where the iconic jazz venue has been for nearly two decades, before moving to much bigger digs at the Baur’s building at 1512 Curtis Street.
For the last fifteen years, the Five Points Jazz Festival has celebrated the neighborhood’s rich jazz history. The neighborhood, which was once dubbed the Harlem of the West, used to be home to a number of jazz clubs. This year’s festival, which is from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., on Saturday, May 20, includes more stages and more bands than previous years. While there are dozens of stellar bands performing this year (you can see the band lineup here), these are five acts definitely worth checking out.
Roughly two decades ago, Andy Palmer gave up music to practice law.
A few years ago, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar was preparing the twentieth-anniversary edition of the band’s 1995 debut album Trace. The album cover was a photo of a 1930s Webster Chicago solid-state amplifier.
Money Plays 8 formed in Denver two decades ago. The nine-piece outfit, which broke up in 2002 and will play two twentieth anniversary reunion shows on Saturday, May 6, quickly established itself as the area’s most popular swing band.
In late 2015, Dragondeer frontman Eric Halborg’s brother-in-law passed along some of the Denver-based psych-blues band’s demos to producer and engineer Mark Howard. Howard, who has worked with heavy hitters including Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, R.E.M. and Neil Young, was skeptical.
Growing up as musician in the major label system, Aimee Mann says the thing she constantly heard was, “This doesn’t sound like a single. We need to have a single. It has to be more up-tempo. Radio won’t play a song that isn’t up-tempo.”
The U.K. punk scene lacked glamour when the Damned launched in 1976, and many clubs had no interest in booking the band.
A year after the 1988 breakup of Hüsker Dü, the mighty punk trio that Bob Mould had fronted for a decade, he played his first ever solo shows at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica in support of his debut solo album, Workbook. “It was really nerve-wracking the first couple…
Dazzle is leaving its longtime location at 940 Lincoln Street and preparing to move downtown to the Baur’s Building at 1512 Curtis Street, where the club will celebrate its grand re-opening on Thursday, June 1.
About halfway through Jonathan Richman’s hour-long set at the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday night, he proclaims, “We don’t do concerts; we do parties.”
Over the years, the space next door to the Boulder Theater has housed different bars and restaurants, most recently Ghost BBQ and Sprits. But when that partnership between the venue and the restaurant expired, Z2 Entertainment, which operates the Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre, stepped in to create the Lounge…
