Kids’ Saturday Matinee

To kick off 2023, Dazzle brings you a new monthly series. At 2PM, the Kids’ Saturday Matinee provides children and parents with opportunities to share in the fun of making music by listening to and watching performances, participating in easy group activities such as sing-alongs, and introductions to various musical instruments in participatory demonstrations.

Starting on January 14th with Nic Clark “Love Your Life” is a family music show that focuses on the important things; self empowerment, kindness towards others, dinosaurs, and good music.

Funding for this program was supported by Denver Arts & Venues through the Denver Music Advancement Fund and allows tickets to cost only $5.

Adult Jazz Classes with Gift of Jazz

Every Saturday, Jan. 21 - March 11

Jazz Composition and Arranging with Donna Wickham

Jazz Piano Class with Vlad Girshevich

Great for holiday gifts and supporting Dazzle’s Big Move with any amount.

The Songwriting of Ron Miles: Featuring Solomon Chapman

Tuesday, Jan. 10 - 6:30pm

Supported by Denver Arts & Venues’ Denver Music Advancement Fund, The Center for Critical & Cultural Theory & Dazzle Present an evening featuring Solomon Chapman as pianist and bandleader, this is the first in a series of shows that digs into the song craft of Denver jazz legend, Ron Miles. It is part discussion and part performance. First, the featured artist will break down the compositional structure and parts of ONE Ron Miles tune: melody, harmony, transitions, where improvisation occurs, etc. Then the featured artist’s group will play the tune and discuss their approach, followed by a set of music of the featured artist’s choice, which may or may not include more Ron Miles tunes.

Solomon Chapman – Piano
JoFoKe – Vocals
Anisha Rush – Saxophone
Matt Campbell – Drums
Will Gaines – Bass

Gregory Goodloe

Thursday, Jan. 12 - 6:30pm

A Denver native,U.S. Army Veteran, Gregory Goodloe continues to move up the ranks of his peers. Claiming the coveted Billboard #1 Smooth Jazz spot with his hit single Stylin’ which also landed #4 song of the year on Billboard in 2019. His hit song Styln’ held 3 number 1 titles simultaneously and has over 3 1/2 Million Streams.
His latest release In Paradise entered the billboard charts as #1 Most added and peaked at #21 on the Smooth Jazz Billboard charts in 2022.

Gregory Goodloe (Guitarist)
Michael White (Bassist)
Raymond Richardson (Keyboardist)
Joe Nickerson (Drums)
Victor Chin (Keyboardist #2)
Yohann Nickerson (Student Saxophonist)

Nostal-Jazz

Friday, Jan. 13 - 6:30pm

Nostal-jazz (nuh-STAHL-jazz) is a unique cover band featuring some of the best local jazz musicians performing the soundtracks of retro video games, television theme songs, and blockbuster films of the past few decades.

Lauryn Romaine Zimny – Vocals
Seth Merlin – Trumpet
David Bernot – Woodwinds
Mike Lenssen – EWI/Synth
Jonathan Zimny – Trombone
Zack Demos – Trombone, Percussion
Jake Alvarez – Guitar
Sonya Walker – Keys
Tucker Smidt – Bass
Zack Ritchie – Drums

Kids’ Saturday Matinee: Nic Clark “Love Your Life”

Saturday, Jan. 14 - 2pm

Love Your Life is a family music show that focuses on the important things; self empowerment, kindness towards others, dinosaurs, and good music. Nic Clark and his friends play songs for the whole family, it doesn’t matter if you’re 9 or 90. All are welcome to the dance party!

Doors open at 1:00 PM and the event will conclude at 3:30 PM.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Funding for this program was supported by Denver Arts & Venues through the Denver Music Advancement Fund

ATOMGA

Saturday, Jan. 14 - 6:30pm

Since their inception in 2011, ATOMGA has continued to be a refreshing staple in the Colorado music circuit. Celebrating 11 years as a band and 11 years of creating a unique brand of afrobeat music infused with elements of jazz, rock, hip hop, and funk. Using this foundation, they are able to build dynamic polyrhythms which always get their audience moving!
ATOMGA is constantly evolving their sound through layered compositions of high energy music that will get your blood moving and the sweat pouring down! Their latest releases from Color Red show a new side to the band with a certain musicality that highlights each of the band members while voicing lyrical messages which are tasteful and socially conscious. ATOMGA has a reputation for live performances which provide a fun filled dance party for all ages and all walks of life.

LaSha “Calysol” Afarko – Vocals
Joshua Merbitz – Trumpet
Frank Roddy – Tenor Saxophone
Andrew Tobin – Baritone Saxophone
Casey Hrdlicka – Guitar
Peter Mouser – Keyboards, Fender Rhodes
Otis Lande – Bass Guitar
Jared “Jball” Fischer – Congas, Djembe, Percussion
Matt Grundstad – Timbales, Percussion
Matt Schooley – Drums

Mary Louise Lee Band

Sunday, Jan. 15 - 6:00PM

***Tickets Just Released***

Georgann Low with Eric Gunnison & Mark Simon

Wednesday, Jan. 18 - 6:30pm

Singer/songwriter, author Georgann Low performs in America and in France. For her Dazzle show, she will sprinkle the music with tasty bits of humor and inspiration from her published writings. Her unique style of singing blossoms as she gives her heart to her own songs and to favorite jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Cole Porter, Herbie Hancock– to name a few.

Georgann Low – Vocals
Eric Gunnison – Piano
Mark Simon – Bass

Kneebody

Thursday & Friday, Jan. 19 - 7pm, Jan. 20 - 6:30pm & 9pm

In their almost two-decade history, the Grammy-nominated band Kneebody has created a genre and style all its own. Their sound is explosive rock energy and high-level nuanced chamber ensemble playing set within the frames of highly wrought compositions that are balanced with adventurous no-holds-barred improvising.

Kneebody is keyboardist Adam Benjamin, trumpeter Shane Endsley, saxophonist Ben Wendel and drummer/bassist Nate Wood. The band has no leader or rather, each member is the leader; they’ve developed their own musical language, inventing a unique cueing system that allows them each to change the tempo, key, style, and more in an instant.

Adam Benjamin- keyboards,
Shane Endsley- trumpet,
Ben Wendel- tenor saxophone,
Nate Wood- bass/drums

Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band: Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration

Saturday, Jan. 21 - 6:30pm & 9pm

Tatiana Eva-Marie, is a Brooklyn-based singer and bandleader. Born and raised in Europe in a professional musical family, a Swiss-French composer and a Romanian classical violinist, Tatiana Eva-Marie grew up equally fascinated by her father’s New Orleans jazz records, and her mother’s heritage of Klezmer and Gypsy folk music.

Nicknamed “the Gypsy-jazz Warbler” by the New York Times and acclaimed as a “millennial shaking up the jazz scene” by magazine Vanity Fair, Tatiana Eva-Marie returns to explore the music of composer Django Reinhardt through her own original arrangements and lyrics in her latest project “Djangology”, a tribute inspired by her French and Romanian Gypsy heritage and her love for the Parisian art scene of the 1920s to the 1960s.

Gavin Worland Big Band

February 6 - 6:30pm

Tribute to Frankie Beverly & Maze

February 26 - 6:30PM

Negroni’s Trio

March 11 - 7PM & 9:30pm

The Matt Skellenger Group

March 10 - 7PM

Rachel Eckroth

April 21 - 7PM