DAZZLE celebrates Women in Jazz during March! |
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| This March, Dazzle recognizes and celebrates Women's History Month with premiere local and international female artists. We recognize the influential women in history who have made a significant impact in jazz, and we support today's strong and innovative female artists who cut through boundaries and dispel barriers.
Please join us for the following shows which highlight female jazz artists, and let us know your stopped through by posting to your social media with #WomeninJazz and tagging @dazzledenver on Instagram, or tagging us as your location on Facebook. |
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Introducing Dawn Clement
March 9th, 7:00 PM Pianist/Vocalist/Composer Dawn Clement's joyful presence, consummate technique and distinctive sound has gained the attention and respect of musicians, critics and fans through the US and abroad. Clement recently re-located from the Pacific Northwest to Denver, Colorado to take on the new role of Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of the Jazz and American Music Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.'
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| Venus Cruz's Birthday Bash March 15th, 9:30 PM - 1:00 AM Come out and celebrate the birthday of Denver music royalty! No matter what involvement you have in the Denver music scene, it'd be difficult not to run into Venus. She's everywhere. Performing, listening, curating, and constantly uplifting and supporting the community. A taste-maker in every sense of the word. For 11 years (!) she's been the host of Jazz Odyssey on KUVO, constantly unveiling the dopest sounds from around the world. Aren't we fortunate that she calls Denver home? She currently leads two bands What Young Men Do, and Super Distant Boyfriend. In recent years these groups have opened for the likes of Hiatus Kaiyote, Emily King and Gregory Porter. For this night, it's all about friends. She'll be joined on stage by some of her closest collaborators, and we'll be opening up the stage for a jam session a little later in the night so that anybody and everybody who knows Venus can help celebrate her existence through sound. Come groove, come get wild, it's going to be a birthday to remember. |
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Inspired by Abbey: Linda Maich Pays Tribute to Abbey Lincoln
March 14th, 6:30 PM
Inspired by Abbey: Linda Maich Pays Tribute to Abbey Lincoln is a homage to a woman of many passions who engaged in life as a musician, poet, actress and civil rights activist. Linda will explore Abbey’s songbook of originals and standards, and perform some of her own songs that have been informed by Abbey’s artistry. She’ll be joined by a team of musicians including Sean McGowan on guitar, Lynn Baker on saxophone, Mike Fitzmaurice on acoustic bass, and Jill Fredericksen on drums.
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| Veronica Swift featuring the Benny Green Trio March 16th, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM At age 24, Veronica Swift is now being recognized around the country as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene. In the fall of 2015, she won second place at the prestigious Thelonius Monk JazzCompetition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Linoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne. Veronica's first appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center was at age 11 when she performed at the "Women in Jazz" series at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. |
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The Maya Spectra & Doors That Don't March 23rd - 9:30 PM Hailing from Canada, lead singer of The Maya Spectra, Janel Blanco, has perfect soulful but gentle pipes which round out the group’s quirky dynamic. The group’s artistic vision is bred by the culmination of their eclectic personal/musical backgrounds, and at the root of it all lies their desire to create a sound that is uniquely theirs juxtaposed with their resolution to remain in a constant flux of sonic reinvention.
Doors That Don't is a group collectively led by Tania Katz on vocals and synthesizer, and Dave Devine on Guitar, joined by drummer and multi-instrumentalist Zachary Antonio. Doors That Don’t delivers their introspective and melodic sounds in both acoustic and electronic manners, toying with several genres including folk, rock, avant-grade, and electronic. The group will be joined by several local talents to recreate the work of their favorite female-led groups in celebration of Women’s History Month. |
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Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow March 24th, 5:30 PM & 8:00 PM
March 25th, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM California-born Carla Bley once attributed her originality as a composer – she is self-taught – to blissful ignorance of “right” and “wrong” ways to write a song. Her early role models included Thelonious Monk, Erik Satie and Miles Davis, all of whom achieved much with few notes. However, Bley’s work also includes maximalist pieces such as the epic “chronotransduction” Escalator over the Hill, an album of Fancy Chamber Music, and many spirited pieces for big band. Nat Hentoff has said that “her scores for jazz big bands are matched only by those of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus for yearning lyricism, explosive exultation and other expressions of the human condition”. |
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Thornetta Davis March 29th, 9:00 PM
March 30th, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM Crowned “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues” in 2015, Thornetta is a multi-talented International singer and songwriter. She is also the winner of over 30 Detroit Music Awards, including sweeps of both the 2017 and 2018 DMA’S. Thornetta has excited and wowed audiences all over the world. Her voice is strong, commanding, melodic and smooth. She tells her stories with an incredibly evocative delivery and leaves her audiences wanting more. For her Dazzle shows she will be backed by her own great band of Detroit Musicians. |
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"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life,
it's a way of being, a way of thinking."
- Nina Simone |
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| Parking: https://dazzledenver.com/parking/
1512 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80202
Dazzle is all ages until 10:30pm. |
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