Denver's Five Points Jazz Festival Resurrects the Harlem of the West

Kenneth Hamblin III May 20, 2018 11:30AM

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The Five Points Jazz Festival took over Denver's historic African American neighborhood, Five Points on May 19, 2018.

Jazz fans braved a cloudy Saturday to attend the annual Five Points Jazz Festival, which paid homage to the music history of the rapidly gentrifying Denver neighborhood, once dubbed Harlem of the West.

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