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JazzTown. JazzTown is a 2021 American documentary film by director and musician Ben Makinen. Through spontaneous conversations and performances, the film highlights the jazz scene of Denver, Colorado and considers jazz as a dynamic art form.
Jazz. The "King of Jazz", bandleader Paul Whiteman, was born in Denver, Colorado on March 28, 1890. From the 1920s-50s, Welton Street in Five Points was home to over fifty bars and clubs, where some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and others performed.
Denver and the Mile High Orchestra (DMHO) is a horn-driven band based out of Nashville, Tennessee. [1] [2] DMHO was formed by a group of friends at Belmont University in 1999. [3] They have traveled across the world, playing at churches, conferences, and festivals. [4] They have performed at two Olympic Games ( 2002-Salt Lake City, 2004-Athens ...
ACQCD7085. So Many Things: The European Tour 1961 is a 4–CD compilation album by American saxophonist John Coltrane containing music recorded live during the 1961 European tour, which took place under the auspices of Norman Granz 's Jazz at the Philharmonic programs. The album, which features Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones along ...
Bill Frisell. William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist. [1] He first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. [2] He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a participant in the Downtown Scene in New York City, where he formed a long working ...
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Child's Dance. (1972) The Giants of Jazz is a live album of an English concert recorded at Victoria Theatre in London in two concerts on the same date, November 14, 1971, by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, and Kai Winding, who were billed as The Giants of Jazz. The album was released by the Atlantic.
The tour buses, also called 'traveling hillbilly shacks,' offer guided tours blending history, crime anecdotes, and humor. The tours cover points of interest in downtown Denver and Boulder, with ghost tours provided in October. Additionally, Denver hosts regular brewery tours, with extra tours and stops during the Great American Beer Festival.