Artists
The Mighty Jivesters feature four pro musicians playing blues-based music with passion and soul.
Groovin’ Blues and Hip Shakin’ Boogie. Jump – swing – groove – funk – jazz – shuffle – rock – soul – jive – stomp.
All the… (Read More)
The Achille Lauro, formerly the Willem Ruys, was a passenger liner. It is most remembered for its 1985 hijacking. Ordered in 1938, her keel was laid in 1939 at Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Interrupted by World War II and two… (Read More)
A painting, a lightning bolt, a glacier. All are relative when describing the music of aenka. Heavily improvised, aenka explores new ground with its genre-bending musical journeys and sound structures. Similar to glaciers, no two shows are alike, each little crack… (Read More)
Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo
The Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo are Chicago’s finest acoustic instrumental guitarists. Now for the first time, steel string ten finger tapping guitar prodigy Andreas Kapsalis, and nylon string Balkan folk guitarist Goran Ivanovic are fusing their Serbian and… (Read More)
The sounds of Luciano Pavarotti, Sade, Fela Kuti, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin tickled the earbuds of Ayo Awosika as she grew up in Northern Virginia outside the Washington D.C. area. It was… (Read More)
Basic Audio Production (class)
This hands-on class in a professional music venue serves as an introduction to the many aspects of recording and producing audio, whether it be music, speech, choir, or theater. The first class includes a brief primer of acoustics, basic microphone tips… (Read More)
Boulder Acoustic Society. As their name implies, this young quartet specializes in all things acoustic: fiddles, ukuleles, accordions, upright basses. What you might not glean from their name, however, is that these guys tackle the traditions with the gusto of a… (Read More)
Multi-Instrumentalist Brad Goode was born in Chicago in 1963 and classically trained on violin from age 4. Brad switched to guitar and cornet at age 11. He took an early interest in the music of Louis Armstrong, learning many of his… (Read More)
Umphrey’s McGee is Brendan Bayliss (guitar, vocals), Jake Cinninger (guitar, Moog, synthesizers, vocals), Joel Cummins (keyboards, vocals), Andy Farag (percussion), Kris Myers (drums, vocals), and Ryan Stasik (bass, no vocals). Also with the band are sound man Kevin Browning, monitor engineer… (Read More)
From over seven years of playing guitar with “Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe”, to performing and recording with Grammy Award winning artist, Lauryn Hill, to numerous appearances with the house band on the NBC television show, “Last call with Carson Daly”, Brian… (Read More)
Like a scene from a jazz gangster movie, Rod Buckner dove, trumpet in hand, behind the drum set to avoid the storm of bullets hitting the stage. Fresh out of college in the early 70’s, Buckner was gigging around Denver every… (Read More)
Carmen Sandim began studying piano at age seven. A native of Brazil, she performed with the Sao Paolo Youth Symphony and won two national competitions in both Brazillian Jazz and classical piano performance categories at age seventeen. She moved to the… (Read More)
While many jazz artists have tried to modernize their sound by throwing in a DJ, and many DJs try to warm up their electronic sound by tossing a saxophone or singer into their mix, the Cocktail Revolution has kept… (Read More)
We have just released our debut cd, Lightparade! we are really excited about it. would you like to have one of your very own? if you like cd’s, you can buy it online at cd baby! and if you don’t like… (Read More)
Nobody escapes their roots, right? Music from Cuba, the Balkans, Appalachia, whether high art music or simple folk music, still maintains the essence of a unique musical culture. Some people like the term roots music. Well my roots are in southwest… (Read More)
julie davis, joseph pope iii, james han, patrick meese all is lost, augustin, all is lost. (Read More)
Fat City Mardi Gras Band blends the best of the Fat Tuesday celebration’s music with Blues, Zydeco, Dixieland, and New Orlean’s Funk! We offer a large group which is very flexible musically, including a marching brass band version; and also a… (Read More)
Based out of Denver, Colorado, Filthy Children first hit the stage together in Nov, 2003. Since then, they have been laying it down all over town, landing regular gigs at nearly all of Colorado’s most respected venues and festivals including: Boulder’s… (Read More)
In a world in which only the strong survive, it doesn’t matter who makes it to the kill first… Pecking order is usually determined by whoever is found eating last. After waiting patiently in the wings of the rap game… Watching… (Read More)
Full Stop’s primary mission upon its formation in late 2005 was to simply play music that felt great. Drawing inspiration from the funky soul jazz of such great acts as Soulive, The Meters, Greyboy Allstars, James Taylor Quartet, and Jimmy Smith… (Read More)
Golan is an up-and-coming quartet led by composer Sebastian Albu and is joined by some of Denver’s finest musicians. Albu’s music is a rich union of heart-wrenchingly beautiful melodies and an ever-changing kaleidoscope of vivid harmonies. Using a wide range of… (Read More)
The Denver-based Greg Harris Quintet is an exciting ensemble performing original compositions in a contemporary jazz style that mixes sophisticated harmonic and melodic content with accessible, in-the-pocket grooves. (Read More)
Guru was the first Hip Hop artist to actually blend Hip Hop with Live Jazz beginning in 1993 with his groundbreaking Hip Hop/Jazz series entitled Jazzmatazz of which he has released 4 acclaimed volumes. On Jazzmatazz Guru has collaborated with everyone… (Read More)
Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for her versatile voice and her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music… (Read More)
Indigenous Peoples is a live 6 piece hip hop / fusion band that consists of guitar/keys, bass, drums, turntables / percussion, a female vocalist, and 2 MC’s from 2 Real 4 Da Mind. Indigenous Peoples are based out of Boulder, Colorado… (Read More)
Founded in early 2006 by Manuel Roybal and Vince Vigil, Jazz del Barrio has played numerous venues in and around Denver including City of Denver’s Audio Picnic, the Colorado Music Summit, Alto and Chaputepec Too. Manuel Roybal is an actor and… (Read More)
bio Jenny Scheinman is a singer, violin player, composer and arranger. She grew up in the sticks playing folk music with her family, went on to study at Oberlin Conservatory, and has been performing as a violinist/fiddler since she was… (Read More)
2007 Finn released his solo debut ’I’ll Be Lightning’, which draws on his experiences from living in London in recent years. Finn chose to record the album entirely in analog at his father’s recording studio, Roundhead Studios, in Auckland. In his… (Read More)
Lizz Wright’s first two Verve releases, Salt and Dreaming Wide Awake, established her as one of the jazz world’s most celebrated rising stars, both an accomplished songwriter and a versatile, deeply expressive singer. On her third album The Orchard, the Georgia-bred… (Read More)
The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (More Info)
