The Rob Mullins Band

Sunday, June 5th - 6pm

Grammy nominated local favorite Rob Mullins returns to Dazzle with his high energy upbeat show featuring music from his 40 albums. Treat yourself to some good vibes and virtuosity with Rob and his All Star Cast.

Rob Mullins (piano, keyboards), Brad Goode (trumpet), Joe Anderies (saxes and flute), Mark Simon (basses), Liam Zahm (drums and vocals)

Ben Markley Big Band with Ari Hoenig

Wednesday, June 8th - 7pm

The Ben Markley Big Band with Ari Hoenig will be performing their album release performance of “Ari’s Funhouse!” The repertoire will consist of pieces from some of Ari’s most well known albums including The Painter, Bert’s Playground, and Punk Bop.

Ari Hoenig (drums), Ben Markley (piano), Evan Gregor (bass), Steve Kovalcheck (guitar), Saxophones: Wil Swindler, Scott Turpen, Jim Pisano, Heath Walton, Sam Williams Trumpets: Pete Olstad, Jake Boldman, Dan Jonas, Gabe Mervine Trombones: Adam Bartczak, Paul McKee, Zach Rich, Jon Gauer

Kind Folk Quartet

Thursday, June 9th - 7pm

Since its inception in 2014, Kind Folk has endured against all odds to create poignant, thoughtful music. After a series of impromptu sessions in a small Brooklyn apartment followed by a string of performances in New York, the group recorded and released their debut album “Why Not” on Fresh Sound Records in 2018. Being called “a new jazz supergroup” (Something Else), the album was praised by critics as “a selfless statement of the highest order” (All About Jazz).

John Raymond (trumpet), Alex LoRe (alto saxophone), Noam Wiesenberg (bass), Colin Stranahan (drums)

Keyon Harrold

Friday, June 10th - 7 & 9pm

Keyon Harrold was born and raised in Ferguson, MO, the St. Louis suburb that tore into America’s national consciousness in 2014 with the police shooting of Michael Brown and the bitter protests and riots that followed. While Ferguson looms large in Harrold’s album The Mugician, it examines our troubled times through a far wider lens than any one tragedy. Sweeping and cinematic, the music draws on elements ofjazz, classicval, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern, unmistakably American.

ELIANE ELIAS

Wednesday June 15th - 7 & 9:30pm

Thursday June 16th - 7 & 9:30pm

Multi-GRAMMY®-winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ distinctive musical style has emerged as one of the most unique and immediately recognizable sounds in jazz. Elias blends her Brazilian roots and alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, her classical and compositional skills, while she consistently displays her pianistic mastery and ability to integrate the many artistic roles she takes on. Elias’ latest album Mirror Mirror (Candid Records) just won a GRAMMY® for Best Latin Jazz Album and is a lifelong musical dream come true—an extraordinary piano duet recording of Eliane with the late legendary jazz great Chick Corea, and famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés.

Eliane Elias (piano), Marc Johnson (bass), Leandro Pellegrino (guitar), Tiago Michelin (drums)

Ron Ivory’s One on One and The MilesApart Band

Thursday, June 30th - 7pm

One on One is a quartet which showcases Motown, Classic Soul and Old School Rhythm and Blues “Just the way you like it”. This quintessential quartet formed in July 2003 by its leader and one of its lead vocalists Ron Ivory features songs from the 60’s thru the 90’s with a dash of today’s contemporary music. Includes songs by artists such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Whispers, The Contours, Al Green, The O’Jays, The Spinners, The Dells, Wilson Pickett and many more.

Ron Ivory (lead vocals & keyboards), Linda Styles (lead vocals), Henry Hudson III (vocals, saxophone), Jimi Alexander (vocals), Robin Garcia (keyboards, saxophone & flute), Ben Mitchell (guitars), Lam McCrary (bass), Greg Canchola (drums)

Otis Taylor

Saturday, July 2md - 7 & 9:30pm

Otis Taylor grew up in Denver, but like the old blues song said, he was born in Chicago in 1948. Like so many musicians in Denver, Taylor drew inspiration from time spent at the Denver Folklore Center founded by Harry Tuft, where he first heard Piedmont, Delta, country, and Chicago blues artists like Son House, Muddy Waters, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He learned to play guitar and harmonica and while still in his teens he formed a band called the Butterscotch Fire Department and later the Otis Taylor Blues Band.

Rico Jones NYC All Star Band ft. Vincent Herring

July 8-9 - 7 & 9:30pm

Rico Jones is steadily becoming one of the top young saxophonists of his generation. Raised in Denver, he studied at Denver School of the Arts and with the Colorado Conservatory for Jazz Arts (CCJA). He headed for New York City for his undergraduate and graduate works at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has earned a remarkable six Downbeat student awards. While in New York, he has performed as a leader with such notable artists as Jeff “Tain” Watts, Bobby Watson, Yasushi Nakamura, Ari Hoenig, Lage Lund, Kush Abadey, Sullivan Fortner, Colin Stranahan, Rick Rosato, Rich Perry, Dave Kikoski, and many others. Rico is joined by a truly all-star lineup of New York musicians for this run of shows.

Rico Jones (saxophone), Vincent Herring (saxophone), Max Light (guitar), Joe Martin (bass), Dan Weiss (drums)

Nelo & Kerrie Joy Present: Dope $h!t w/Friends

Saturday, July 16th - 7 & 9:30pm

In the spirit of friendship, Nelo & Kerrie Joy bring to you a night of joy, community, love….and dope $h!t with friends. See you there, friend!

Samara Joy feat. the Pasquale Grasso Trio

Friday, August 5th - 7 & 9:30pm

Samara Joy is a singing star in the ascendancy, with a voice as smooth as velvet and endless charm. The young vocalist attracted attention in 2019 after winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Now, the 21-year-old announces her self-titled debut release, which puts her spin on jazz standards from the Great American Songbook. Produced by Grammy-nominated veteran Matt Pierson, she’s joined by jazz guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso and his trio (Ari Roland and Kenny Washington) for a release that furthers Joy’s reputation as one of America’s most promising young jazz vocalists.

Samara Joy (vocals), Pasquale Grasso (guitar), Ari Roland (bass), Kenny Washington (drums)

Paa Kow

Saturday, July 6th - 7 & 9:30pm

Having toured internationally, sharing stages with both African and American luminaries including Kojo Antwi, Amakye Dede and Victor Wooten, Ghana born drummer and composer, Paa Kow, (pronounced Pah-Ko), blends rhythm and artistry from his home with jazz and African roots creating his own Afro-Fusion sound. Dubbed “Ghana’s most artistic drummer” (Modern Ghana), he plays a custom, hand-carved, traditionally inspired Ghanaian drum set that is the only one of its kind in the world, guaranteeing an extraordinary cultural and musical experience. Paa Kow’s deep groove and prodigious talent reveal a unique ability to speak to listeners with his drums, inspiring a profound spiritual conversation and fulfilling his vision to spread the music and culture of his homeland by touring the world with his Afro-Fusion Orchestra.

Paa Kow (drumset), Tom Ogunribido (bass), Peyton Shuffield (percussion), Jonnie Cohen (guitar), Solomon Goldbas (keys), Brad Goode (trumpet), John Gunther (saxophone), Joel Michael Timm (trombone_

Benny Benack III Quartet

Wednesday, August 10th - 7pm

Trumpeter and Vocalist Benny Benack III has already become a leading voice in Jazz for his generation, and at 31 years old, his trademark ebullience and energy onstage assures his audiences he’s got “A Lot of Livin’ to Do” still to come! His sophomore album of that title featured the likes of Christian McBride and Ulysses Owens Jr. and even had a viral smash hit w/his vocalese rendition of “Social Call” ft. Veronica Swift that’s been transcribed and covered by artists around the world. Finishing 3rd in the 2021 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition and being voted #5 Rising Star Male Jazz Vocalist in the most recent Downbeat Critics Poll proves Benack’s chops as a crooner are just as viable as his trumpet playing, making him the rare true double threat.

Benny Benack III (trumpet/vocals), Julius Rodriguez (piano), Alex Claffy (bass), Joe Peri (drums)

Joel Ross ‘Good Vibes’

Tuesday, August 16th - 7 & 9:30pm

Joel Ross continues refining an expression that’s true to his sound and his generation. Ross has topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone — graduating beyond the Rising Star to well-honed artist in 2021 — as well as the Jazz Journalists Association Critics Poll for Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year in 2020, 2021, and 2022. He recently became one of the youngest artists to earn a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery and a spot in The Jazz Gallery All Stars band through which he performed live at The Kennedy Center.

Joel Ross (vibraphone), Jeremy Corren (piano), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Dutton (drums)

Emmaline

Friday, August 19th - 7 & 9:30pm

Emmaline is a 22-year-old singer and songwriter possessing a smoky, jazz-infused, genre-fluid voice admirable as much for the range of traditional sounds she draws upon, as for her startling freshness—fresh, as in new and innovative as well as in attitude and sly humor. Her songs are bold in statement and soft in feel, her flow supple and precise. She prides herself in being one who has listened with deep intention to her heroes—Anita O’Day and Billie Holiday, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo—and has already learned to rise above questions of category with a healthy sense of musical identity and forethought.

Harp Tribute to James Cotton with the James Cotton Band

Thursday, August 25th - 7 & 9:30pm

The iconic harmonica man James Cotton passed away in 2017 at the age of 81. Cotton’s considered by most the last great harp titan of the generation that produced Little Walter( who James replaced in Muddy Waters Band), Sonny Boy Williamson 2( who raised Cotton from 12 yrs old), Jr Wells, Big Walter and many more. James’ career spanned more than six plus decades and put him on the map of All Time Blues Greats!

Rico McFarland & Tom Holland (guitars), Cros-Charles Mack (bass), Mark Mack (drums), Mark Hummel (harp), Kyle Rowland (harp), Al Chesis (harp)

The Cash Box Kings

Friday, August 26th - 7 & 9:30pm

Hailing from the ‘Windy City,’ Alligator Recording artists the Cash Box Kings are keeping REAL DEAL, old-school Chicago blues alive and thriving. With their top shelf musicianship and trademark good humor, The Cash Box Kings are a one-of-a-kind blues band and bona fide blues royalty. In the words of MOJO magazine, the band is “flawless.” Mixing tough Chicago and Delta blues, jumping proto-rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, soul and steamrolling “bluesabilly” (their original mix of Chicago blues and Memphis rockabilly), they attack every song they play with contemporary authority and old school authenticity.

Oscar Wilson (vocals), Joe Nosek (harmonica and vocals), Gerry Hundt (guitar and vocals), John W. Lauler (bass), Derek Hendrickson (drums), Kenny Saydak (piano, organ)