~~ “djSOS’zz Weekly Jazz Megillah”  ~~ “ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAZZ BEAT’ZZ WEEKLY ‘SOUNDZ OF SURPRIZE’” by Peter Poses ~~.

~~ THE  03/01/10 ~ 03/15/10  & BEYOND ~~ ” djSOS’zz JAZZ MEGILLAH” ~~  ”ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAZZ BEAT’ZZ WEEKLY ‘SOUNDZ OF SURPRIZE’” by Peter Poses ~~.

WELCOME TO A WINTERY JAZZY 2010 ~~ “You Must Believe In Spring” (Michel Legrand).  And be careful what U ask fer ( U might get it),  ’cause “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” (Fran Landesman & Tommy Wolf) ~~.

~~ Associate Editor, “Rocky Mountain Jazz” and djSOS, Host of “OverNight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize”from “‘Round Midnight” every Thurs. to 6AM Fri., on KRFC FT COLLINS ~~ HomeGrown Community Radio @ 88.9FM & streamin’ on www.krfcfm.org. KRFC FT COLLINS is located @ 619 S. College., #4, Ft Collins, CO 80524 ~~ 970.221.5075 ~~ Peter can be reached atpposes@rockymountainjazz.comor pposes@gmail.comor 303.851.7265 ~~.

~~ The NEA ( The National Endowment For The Arts) ~ 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Books Are Available (As Long As They Last! ~ So Hurry, Hurry, Hurry) ~~ ADDITIONAL ~~ “NEA Jazz Masters ~ 1982 ~ 2010″ ~~ can be obtained for FREE (YEZZ, YEZZ, YEZZ, that’zz fer FREE!) by contactin’ The NEA @ www.arts.gov ~~ P.S.  The Person many of us appreciative jazz-beaux & -bellezz have to thanx is ~~  Mzz. Liz[z] Stark, Communications Assistant, The  NEA, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20506~0001 ~~ starke@arts.gov ~~ 202.682.5744 (p) ~~ 202.682.5400 (p)~~ 202.682.5611 (f)  ~~.

~~ WE’RE SORRY FER THE IN CONVENIENCE, & THE NEDITOR WILL LETCHA KNO WHEN THE RMJB MONTHLY CALENDAR IS BACK ON LINE ~~ THE NEDITOR IS BUSY WORKIN’ ON EZ2FOLLOW DIRECTIONZZ FOR YOU ARTISTZZ. Any questionzz, please contact The Neditor aka Ned Radinsky @ ned@rockymountainjazz.com ~~ Thanx ~~.

~~ In the meantime, “The RMJB/SOS” is bein’ published ~~

~~ FREE LISTIN’ZZ @ FMMI:jazzden@yahoogroups.comordan@zjazz.net or www.zjazz.net ~~.

AND FREE radio prom announcementzz @ concertcalendar@krfcfm.org ~~.

BLUE NOTEZZ :

JazzMaTazz Has Locked Itzza Doorzz! Fer Good? Stay Tuned.

~~ TONITE, TONITE ~~ 03/07/10 ~~

~~MON MAR 8TH ~~ The Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra in The Dazzle Showroom @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazzor www.metropolitanjazzorchestra.com ~~ Also: MON MAR15TH ~~.

~~ THIS WEEK IN JAZZ ~~ 03/08 ~ 03/14/10 ~~

SUN TO MON ~~ 7 NiteZZ A WEEK ~~ Jazz in The Dazzle Showroom @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 ~~  Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazzor www.metropolitanjazzorchestra.com ~~ FMMI: http://www.dazzlejazz.com/index.php?s=20&item=1689.

~~ MON MAR 8TH ~~ The Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra in The Dazzle Showroom @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazzor www.metropolitanjazzorchestra.com ~~ Also: MON MAR15TH ~~.

~~ TUEZZ MARCH 9TH ~~ CSU Spring’zz Jazz Artist-In-Residence Trombonist Paul KcKee Performin’ @ The Lincoln Center, 17 West Magnolia Fort Collins, CO 80521 ~~ FMI: http://www.music.colostate.edu/faculty/bios/sommer.asp ~~ Peter.Sommer@colostate.edu ~~ FMMI:  970. 221.6735  OR info@lctix.com OR http://www.fcgov.com/lctix/~~ Jennifer Clary, Colorado State University, Marketing and Publicity Director, School of the Arts ~~Jennifer.Clary@colostate.edu~~ 970.491.3603 ~~http://www.CSUSchooloftheArts.com ~~ .

TUEZZ March 9TH ~~ BrassMan Brad Goode Trio featurin’ BassMan Paul Warburton @  The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., 303.447.0475 ~~ HitTime: 6:30 – 9:30 PM ~~ FMI ~~ www.blendingcellar.com ~~ Host & Hostezz: Leah & Jeff ~~ Don’t miss one of the best trumpet players of our time, along with amazing bass and drums ~~.

Wed March 10TH Dexter Payne on clarinet, alto and bari sax & Bill Kopper on guitar @  The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., 303.447.0475 ~~ HitTime: 6:30 – 9:30 PM~~ FMI: www.blendingcellar.com ~~ Host & Hostezz: Leah & Jeff ~~ .

~~ WED MARCH 10TH ~~ Concert of original jazz music by Guitarist Matt Fuller and Bassist Jean-Luc Davis featuring BrassMan Ron Miles ; Vibraharpist Greg Harris; & Drummer Josh Moore @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 ~~  Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazzor www.metropolitanjazzorchestra.com ~~ FMMI: http://www.dazzlejazz.com/index.php?s=20&item=1689.~~  Denver guitarist Matt Fuller and bassist Jean-Luc Davis perform in the Aakash Mittlal Quartet and other groups as side men, but are stepping out as leaders/composers for this concert.  From hard driving rock to ruminative, spacious ballads the music is full of expression and experimentation.  Legendary trumpet sensation Ron Miles will be featured for this night of creative original music ~~ For more information contact Jean-Luc Davis at 720-333-4030, or jeanlucdavis@gmail.com ~~.

WED MAR  10TH ~~ Mark Diamond at El Chapultepec, still a great place to hang and check out the music ~~ You can usually get a seat on Wednesday ~~ FMI:http://www.boulderado.com/qsrestaurant.html ~~ FMMI: Mark’zz Full SCHEDULE LINK -http://tinyurl.com/3yrhy5 ~~ FMMMI: www.markdiamondmusic.com ~~ .

THURZZ MAR 11TH ~~ ReedMan John Gunther Presentzz Guitarist Brad Shepik  @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ, MAR 11TH ~~  The Mark Diamond Bass Combo (b) W/Andy Weyl(p) & Chris Lee(d) @ The Boulderado Hotel, Hotel Lobby , 2115 13th St., Boulder ~~ HitTime: 5:30 ~ 8:30PM ~~ FMI: 303-442-4880 OR  8.433.4344 ~~ www.qsboulder.com ~~  The Mark Diamond Bass Trio in The Lobby of The Hotel Boulderado featurin’ Chtris Dadian(g) & Chrisd Lee(d) for Q’s fantastic happy hour food and drink ~~ I’m joining for the first time with the formidible guitarist Clint Dadien, and the talented Chris Lee on drums.  Should be a good one, so come early for a good seat ~~ FMI:http://www.boulderado.com/qsrestaurant.html ~~ FMMI: Mark’zz Full SCHEDULE LINK -http://tinyurl.com/3yrhy5 ~~ FMMMI: www.markdiamondmusic.com ~~ .

~~ THURZZ  MARCH 11TH ~~ Well-travelled Guitarist Larry Coryell@ Mount Vernon Country Club, Mount Vernon Country Club / 24933 Clubhouse Circle, Golden, CO 80401 ~~ HitTime: 8PM (Buffet Dinner @ 6PM) ~~ FMI: 303-526-0616 ~~ FMMI: www.mountvernoncc.com ~~ Tix $15 (Music) ~ $36.95 (Buffet + Tip + Tax) ~~

THURZZ MARCH 11TH ~~ GUITAR LEGEND, LARRY CORYELL WILL PERFORM WITH HISBOMBAY JAZZ PROJECT AT MOUNT VERNON COUNTRY CLUB ~~ Guitar legend Larry Coryell returns to Mount Vernon on Thursday, March 11 with his Bombay Jazz Project including composer and saxophonist George Brooks, Indian bamboo flute master Ronu Majumdar, and tabla virtuoso Aditya Kalyanpur.  These world music visionaries blend the ancient improvisational art of Indian classical music with jazz, Americas’ own classical music, to create a soul satisfying, original music filled with rich melodies and dynamic rhythms ~~ Bombay Jazz made their debut performance at the Jazz Yatra in Mumbai, India in 2003, receiving critical and popular acclaim.  As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock, Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books. Larry has performed with superstars Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia and Pat Metheny. Larry first appeared before Indian audiences in 1982 performing with Shakti.  His Indian music collaborations also include Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain and Dr. L. Subramanium.  George Brooks is hailed as the “leading American voice in Indian jazz fusion.”  The saxophonist and composer has performed with such notable musicians as Terry Riley, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Etta James, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Kronos Quartet.  His original compositions combine elegant melodies with the rich harmonies of modern jazz and the driving rhythms of North India.   His compositions have been performed by Yo-Yo Ma.  Joining Larry and George is world renowned flutist Ronu Majumdar , who has performed with Ravi Shankar, George Harrison and co-composed the score for the award winning Imax film, Mystic India and tabla master Aditya Kalyanpur, whose long list of credits include the Rolling Stones.  Don’t miss this special Larry Coryell performance ~~ As usual, a delicious buffet dinner will precede the concert beginning at 6:00 p.m.  The concert will start at 8:00 p.m.  The price for dinner and concert is $45.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity.  Concert only seating is available for $20.00.  Reservations should be made by calling 303-526-0616.  Mount Vernon Country Club is located 17 miles west of Denver ~~ Master Card and Visa are accepted ~~ FMI: www.mountvernonncc.com OR 303.526.0616 ~~ UP-COMIN’ CONCERT THURZZ. APRIL 15TH OMAR SOSA ~~.|

~~ THURZZ, FRI, & SAT ~~ WeekNd Jazz @ The Burnsley All Suite Hotel/Lounge/Bar, 1000 Grant Street; Denver, CO 80203 ~~ ~~ HitTime: 7 – 10PM  ~~ FMI:  Jennifer Barrett, Food & Beverage Manager  ~~jbarrett@rdamanagement.comORwww.burnsley.com~~ Phone 303.830.1000; Fax 303.860.8657 ~~ Call 1ST & Check The Schedule ~~

~~ FRI & SAT MAR 12TH  & MAR 13TH ~~ HOT, HOT Tixx ~~ VSOP ~~ Guitarist Dave Corbus Presentzz Virtuosic Trombonist & Entertainer Wycliffe Gordon And Featurin’ Ken Walker(b) 7 Paul Romaine(d)  @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ FRI MARCH 12 ~~ Altoist Maceo Parker @ Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton Street, 5 Points, Denver CO 80205-2911 ~~ ~~ FMI: www.cervantesmasterpiece.com ~~ (303) 297-1772 ~~ (See Bret Saunders’ “Jazz” Column In “The DP” ~ 03/07/10 ~ P.”7E In The A&E Section”) ~~.

~~ SAT MAR 13TH  ~~ HOT, HOT Tixx ~~ VSOP ~~ Guitarist Dave Corbus Presentzz Virtuosic Trombonist & Entertainer Wycliffe Gordon And Featurin’ Ken Walker(b) 7 Paul Romaine(d)  @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ SAT MAR 13TH ~~  The Tina Phillips and Dave Hanson Vocal ~ Piano Duo @ The Twisted Olive, 8270 Northfield Boulevard, Denver, CO in Denver, CO ~~ HitTime: 6:30 ~ 8:30PM ~~ No Cover ~~ FMI: www.twistedolive.com or FMMI: www.tinaphillipsjazz.com OR tphillips13@msn.com ~~.

~~ SUN MAR 14TH ~~ HOT, HOT Tixx ~~ VSOP ~~ Two Virtuosi PianoMan Art Lande & ReedMan Paul McCandless @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 6:00 & 8:00PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~  Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~  CYBERSPACE JAZZ-MAIL – A courtesy service for Jazz-Bellezz & Beaux extended by Dan Osborn aka Ozzy – To receive daily e-mailin’zz of Jazz Gig’zz, as well as to post yer own – Go to:www.zjazz.netor jazzden@yahoogroups.comor dan@zjazz.net.

N.B: IF U R NOT RECEIVIN’ THE “ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAZZ BEAT” & “SOUNDZ OF SURPRIZE” BY E-MAIL, PLEASE ACCESS FROM www.rockymountainjazz.com. Word on he street is that the weekly e-mailin’ service is B’in’ revived. To sign up, follow the directionzz posted in www.rockymountainjazz.com. “SOS” — A new feature: Check out djSOS’zz weekly KRFC PlayList” posted in “The RMJB”! N.B.I: — JAZZ MUSICIANZZ/ARTISTZZ/VOCALISTZZ/TEACHERZZ/GIGISTZZ Please, don’t forget to list your Gigzz by goin’ to: “The RMJB” — www.rockymountainjazz.com — has been up-graded. — Go 2 the “www”, click on “Calendar”, scroll down about a page worth (right below the “Monthly Calendar”) & you’ll find in RED CAPITALS: “ARTISTS CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR EVENTS”, click & a template will present. Fill it out. — U’ve listed yer own event! In addition, right under the above noted “ARTISTS…EVENTS”, also in RED CAPITAL FONT is, “SUBSCRIBE TO ‘THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAZZ BEAT WEEKLY NEWSLETTER’”. By doin’ that, another listin’ can be accomplished. Please continue to send 2 me, as I list in my “RMJB/SOS” blog for a 3RD listin’ — sendin’ yer Gig Listin’ to me @ pposes@rockymountainjazz.com or pposes@gmail.com or forwardin’ by www.rockymountainjazz.com. Thanx. Thus there R THREE wayzz to list. N.B II: To B considered 4 postin’ in “The RMJB/SOS Blog” please include the followin’ info, conformin’ to the form used below — e.g: – PUT ALL TOGETHER IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS: 1) Day – e.g. Friday ; 2) Date – e.g. Sept., 20, 2007; 3) Artist / Group Name /Artistzz/Instrumentation – e.g — The Ken Walker Sextet W/ Dave Corbus(g), Al Hood(brass), Peter Sommer(ts), Jeff Jenkins(p), Ken Walker(b) & Paul Romaine(d); 4,5 & 6) Name Of Venue & complete Address: e.g. Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St. (Lincoln & Ninth Sts); 7) City – e.g. – Denver; State – e.g. Colorado (optional); 9) HitTime (zz) – 7PM & 9PM; 10) Venue Web Site/Tele/e-mail – e.g. -www.dazzlejazz.comor 303.839.5100 or dazzlejazz.comor reservationsatdazzlejazz.com~~

~~ THE NEW FACE OF JAZZ BY CICILY JANUS & NED RADINSKY IS AVAILABLE FOR ORDERIN’ NOW!! ~~ AVAILABLE 07/13/2010 ~~ FROM Cicily ~~  I’ve announced it via my facebook page and twitter, but here’s YOUR official announcement: THE NEW FACE OF JAZZ IS ALIVE!  AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON.COM ~~ Order your copies now ~~ It’s priced out at 21.99 which is a steal ~~ Cicily Janus ~~ (719) 761.1955 ~~ Author of the New Face of Jazz ~~ Random House, Summer, 2010 ~~ www.newfaceofjazz.com ~~ Founder of Writing Away Retreats ~~ www.writingawayretreats.com ~~ Cicily Janus, Author of The New Face of Jazz ~~ Host of Writing Away Retreats ~~ www.cicilyjanus.net ~~

JAZZ FINAL BARZZ, CODAZZ, & LAST CHORDZZ FOR 2009 ~~ JAZZ OBITZZ ~~ http://www.jazzinstitut.de/us.htm

~~  Do you know about DenverLiveMusic? Several club owners have formed a consortium to make it easier for jazz fans to find out what is going on. They have a calendar showing what gigs that are scheduled. You can see their site at http://www.denverlivemusic.net/and the full calendar is at http://www.denverlivemusic.net/fullsched.html ~~ Participants in the project, in alphabetical order, are: alto, 1320 15th St.; Dazzle ,930 Lincoln St.; D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.; Herbs, 2057 Larimer St.; Jazz @ Jacks, 500 16th St. #320; Meade St. Station, 3625 W. 32nd Ave.; and Ziggies, 4923 W. 38th Avenue ~~ FMI: Daniel Osborn aka Ozzy at jazzden@yahoogroups.comor dan@zjazz.net.~~

~~ FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLORADO SPRINGS BASED PIKES PEAK JAZZ & SWING SOCIETY ~~ Go to www.ppjass.org for even more information.

~~  To Access “Playlistzz” of Jazz Broadcasterzz GO TO: www.spinitron.com & CLICK ON THE STATION CALL LETTERZZ ~~ ALSO: KRFC FT COLLLINS now listzz itzza “PLAYLISTZZ” ~~ Go to: www.krfcfm.org ~~.

~~ FYI: NORMAN PROVIZER’ZZ “JAZZ NOTES” LIVE! Like a phoenix, they have emerged outta the ashezz of “The RMN”, and landed in Jazz89~KUVO’zz weekly “Oasis Newsletter”. They’ll be posted EVERY THURZZ. Check:www.kuvo.org for access. ~~

~~ To Check Out The Jazz Programmers’ List: Jazz Programmers’ Mailing List: jazzproglist@jazzweek.com~~. List information: http://lists.jazzweek.com/mailman/listinfo/jazzproglist List archive:http://lists.jazzweek.com/pipermail/jazzproglist/ ~~ Sponsorship information:http://jplsponsor@jazzweek.com ~~.

For Calendar/Venue/Artist/CD Review & Other Music Info In N. CO, CHECK OUT “THE SCENE”, The Music Guide For the Northern Front Range @ www.scenemagazine.info ~~.

~~ JAZZ HOT HITZZ ~~ UP-COMIN’ JAZZ ~~ N. COLORADO IS ENTERING ITZZA JAZZ FESTIVAL SEASON IS WRAPPIN’ UP WITH LOTZZA PRIMO MUSIC TO BE HEARD ~~ CHECK OUT THE LINE UP! ~~

~~ FREE LISTIN’ZZ FER YER GIGZZ @ KRFC FT COLLINS ~~~ 88.9FM orwww.krfcfm.org OR www.concertcalendar@krfcfm.org ~~.

~~ EVERY THURZZ. ~~ DON’T FORGET NORMAN PROVIZER’ZZ “JAZZ NOTES” COLUMN @ www.kuvo.org~~ EVERY THURZZ.

~~  BRET SAUNDER’ZZ COLUMN IN “THE A & E” SECTION OF EVERY OTHER (03/21/10 [next column]) ~~www.denverpost.com ~~.

~~ Dan Osborn aka OZZY @ www.zjazz.net OR  jazzden@yahoogroups.comOR dan@zjazz.net~~ ALSO: Artistzz can list their GIGZZ w/ Ozzy!

~~  THE NEDITOR’ZZ: www.rockymountainjzz.com ~~ ESPECIALLY FOR HIS JAZZ PHOTOGRAPHY ~~ WORLD CLASS ~~ AND LOOK TO THE FUTURE FOR “THE FACE OF JAZZ” by MZZ. CICILY JANUS (text) & MR. NED RADINSKY (visual design & photography) ~~ FMI: www.newfaceofjazz.spreadshirt.com or for a PREZZ KIT: newfaceofjazz@gmail.comor www.newfaceofjazz.com ~~.

~~ Extra cut: The weekly “Playlist” of djSOS, aka Peter Poses, Host of “OverNight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” from “‘Round Midnight” every Thurs. to 6AM Fri., on KRFC FT COLLINS ~~~ HomeGrown Community Radio @ 88.9FM & streamin’ on www.krfcfm.org.KRFC FT COLLINS is located @ 619 S. College., #4, Ft Collins, CO 80524 ~~ 970.221.5075 ~~ Peter can be reached @ pposes@gmail.comor 303.851.7265. Copies of djSOS’zz weekly “Playlistzz” are accessible on www.spinitron.com.Go to KRFC & “follow the bouncin’ ball”…

~~ HERE YE, HEAR YE!!!!! COLORADO IS A STATE OF CD RELEASEZZ ~~

~~ HOT-OFF-THE PRESS CD RELEASEZZ  TO BE CELEBRATED IN 2010! ~~

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SUPPORT YER CO-BASED IMPRINTZZ:

~~ www.caprirecords.com ~~ (Proprietor Tom Burns) ~~.

~~ www.jazzedmedia.com ~~ (Proprietor Graham Carter) ~~.

~~ www.jazzlinkenterprises.com ~~ (Proprietess Jude Hibler) ~~.

To check up on Jazz Eventzz @

~~ CU BOULDER, CHECK OUT: ~~ Concertzz At CU Boulder ~~~ www.cuconcerts.org.~~ OR please contact John Lake @ John Lake Performing Jazz Combos @ lakejw@hotmail.com~~.

~~ METRO STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER @ THE KING CENTER ~~  AURARIA CAMPUS ~~  http://www.ahec.edu/MasterCalendar/MasterCalendar.aspx ~~.

~~ DU’S LAMONT SCH. OF MUSIC ~~ 2344 E. Iliff Ave. (& S. University Ave., ), Denver  ~~  FMI: 303.871.7720  or 303. 871.6973 or www.du.edu/lamont ~~.

~~ THE BROADWAY SCHOOL OF MUSIC for Classezz, Concertzz, & more… ~~ 1940 S. Broadway, Denver ~~ 303-777-0833 ~~ info@broadwaymusicschool.com~~www.broadwaymusicschool.com ~~ Steve Shurack, Executive Director ~~.

~~ Max Donaldson, Master Storyteller ~~ www.MaxDonaldsonLive.com OR 303-698-1117~~.

~~ WEEKDAYZZ JAZZ ~~

~~ MON., Jazz @ Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 ~~ no cover ~~ ALSO Vinyl Mondays w/ Marinos V. & Eric Troe ~ HitTime: 9PM. ~ www.dazzlejazz.comor 303.839.5100. ~~              HitTime: 9 :00PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com & Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

MON., (CHECK DATEZZ) ~~ The Ultraphonic Jazz Orchestra Play Their Monthly Gig at Jazz@Jack’s ~~ Denver Pavilions, 1500 16th St #320, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ HitTimet 7:30 PM ~~ FMI: 303-433-1000. Also check: www.jazzatjazz.com. ~~ For more info: www.dotsero.org or www.myspace.com/dotserojazz~~.

~~ Mondays ~ The Legacy Jazz Orchestra Performing The Music Of Thad Jones @ Herb’s Bar, 2057 Larimer Street, Denver, CO. 80205 ~~ HitTime: 7:30 – 10:ooPM  ~~ FMI: ~~ www.herbsbar.com OR info@herbsbar.com OR 303.299.9555 ~~.

~~ YA WANNA CUT THE RUG! —-THE RHYTHM COMPANY’S — www.RhythmCompany.comor www.JiveCats.comor 970.498.0798 ~~.

~~ TUEZZ., ~~ The B3 Project Featurin’ Multi-Reedist Laura Newman @ Herb’s, 2057 Larimer St., LoDo ~~HitTime: 9:30PM ~~ FMI: www.herbsbar.com ~~ 303.299.9555 ~~.

TUEZZ ~~ Multi~Reedist/Vocalist Max Wagnert joins up with the Jerry Weiss Trio at Houston’s, 303 Josephine Street, Cherry Creek Denver ~~ HitTime: 5:30 to 10 PM ~~ Houston’s has a diverse and delicious menu. ~~ FMMI: info@peneplainmusic.com OR  www.hillstone.com OR – (303) 333-4688 ALSO: TUEZZ THRU FEB & MARCH ~~ FMMI: Max Wagner @ http://www.maxwagnerjazz.com ~~ Max Wagner @ max.sax@beyondbb.com ~~.

TUEZZ. ~~ The Tuezz JAM Sessionzz @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., DCO ~~ ARTISTZZ TBA ~~ HitTime: For information email: info@dazzlejazz.com ~~ or 303.839.5100 or www.dazzlejazz.com – HitTime: 4:30PM. :: The TUEZZ JAM Session ~~ Dazzle’s weekly jazz jam session @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 :: no cover ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 9 :00PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com & Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ TUEZZ, ~~ Jazz at Mead St. Station, 3625 West 32nd Avenue in Denver’s Highland Neighborhood (close to the corner of 32nd and Lowell) — EARLY SHOW w/ Pianist/Vocalist Ellyn Rucker ~~ HitTime: 4 – 6PM. LATE SHOW: 9-12PM. Meade Street has great food and drinks and a casual atmosphere. It’s located at 3625 West 32nd Avenue in Denver’s Highland Neighborhood (close to the corner of 32nd and Lowell) — 303-433-2138 or meadststation.com.

~~ TUEZZ., Jazz @ The Wynkoop – 1730 WYNKOOP, ACROSS FROM UNION STATION DENVER . HitTime: 8:OOPM-12:OOAM. FMI: 303-293-2887 or www.triosenoteca.com~~FMMI: Schedule:www.triosenoteca.com/music_schedule.shtml. ~~

~~ FMMI : www.jazzarts.org ~~ For CCJA info + listin’zz of CO-BASED JAZZ ARTISTZZ & more… ~~.

WED  ~~  Jeff Jenkins’ Piano Conversationzz @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 9PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz~~.

~~WEDZZ ~~ Gypsy Swing Revue @ The Snug, 1201 E. Colfax Ave., DCO ~~www.irishsnug.com ~~ HitTime : 7:30PM. FMI: Elliot Reed @ 303.979.6737 or 303.745.7944 (mobile) or elliotreed@comcast.netorwww.gypsyswingrevue.com .

WEDZZ. — Jazz at Manno’s, 1441 E Horsetooth, Ft. Collins. HitTime: 6-9 PM. For more info: www.mannosgrille.com.or 970.223-2478 (Call First)~~.

~~ WEDZZ ~~ The Hugh Jazz Combo @ The Crown Pub, 134 S. College Ave., FTC ~~ 970.484.5929. HitTime: 7 – 11PM. FREE ~~ www.thehughjazzcombo.com ~~.

~~ WEDNESDAYZZ ~~ Pianist Mark Sabatella playin’ solo at Chi Bistro (Gaylord & Mississippi). HitTime: 6:30-9:30 solo Marc Sabatella – marc@outsideshore.com or www.outsideshore.com ~~ Call 1ST ~~.

~~ WEDZZ., ~~ Laura Newman’s band featurin’ Laura Newman(reedzz); Ellyn Rucker(p,vcl), Vlad Girshevich(kybd), Matt Amundson(d) at Mead Street Station ~~ HitTime: 9 – 12PM. Meade Street has great food and drinks and a casual atmosphere. It’s located at 3625 West 32nd Avenue in Denver’s Highland Neighborhood (close to the corner of 32nd and Lowell) ~~ 303-433-2138 or www.meadststation.com ~~.

~~ WEDZZ., Jazz in The Trentino Room at Maggiano’s, 740 12 S. Clinton St., Englewood 80112. (303)858-1405 ~~ www.maggianos.com in The Tech Ctr. HitTime: 6 – 9PM ~~ .

WEDZZ., Jazz Partners at Gumbo’s Restaurant @ 1530 16th Street (on the 16th Street Mall), in Denver. HitTime: 5 – 8PM. Check for up-dated schedule ~~.

~~ WEDZZ: Jam Sessions @ The Pec Too, 3930 W. 38TH Ave., NW Denver ~~ 303.480.9406 ~~ HitTime: 8:30PM – 11:30PM ~~~ www.Myspace.com/thrpec1 ~~.

WEDZZ., Trio Jazz @ 1730 WYNKOOP, ACROSS FROM UNION STATION, DENVER — HitTime: 8:OOPM-12:OOAM ~~ FMI:www.triosenoteca.com or 303-293-2887 — Schedule: http://www.triosenoteca.com/music_schedule.shtml~~.

~~ Every WEDZZ. ~~ Itzza Jazz (or jazz-crossover) Nite @ Nissi’s Live Music & Bistro, 2675 N. Park Dr., (SE corner of 95TH & Arapaho), Lafayette, CO 80026 ~~ www.nissis.com or (303)/665-8115. TixLine: (303)/665-2757. ~~ HitTime: 9:30PM ~~ FMI: http://www.nissis.com~~.

~~ WEDZZ. @ Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203 ~~ For info ~~ www.dazzlejazz.comor 303-839-5100. HitTimezz: 7 & 9PM ~~  WEDZZ., ~~ Guitarist Justin Donovan Hitzz @ 5PM ~~ Happy Hour @ Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge 930, Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203. Also: “Speakeasy: Spoken Word W/ Jazz” @ 9PM~~.

~~ WEDZZ – SATZZ ~~ FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY – Every Wed. to Sat. – Mark Sloniker and Friends ~~ at Jay’s Bistro, Old Town, Ft. Collins, Jays Bistro in Fort Collins with Mark Sloniker on piano and guestzz. The gig is from 7:30 to 10:45 (or 11:30PM). Jay’s Bistro 970-482-1876, 135 W Oak St, Fort Collins, CO 80524. www.jaysbistro.netor www.marksloniker.com for his full sched & “Newsletter”. FREE. ~~

~~ FYI: The Ft. Collins Musician’s Association: www.focoma.org ~~.

~~ WEDZZ – THURZZ – FRI – SAT ~~ Jazz at Del’s Frisco, 8100 E Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 ~~ Hit Time: 7:00 PM ~~ Check their schedule ~~ 303.796.0100 ~~.

Mark Diamond @ 303-443-2922 or www.markdiamondmusic.com or for Mark’zz Sched: http://tinyurl.com/3yrhy5 ~~.

THURZZ. ~~ Jazz @ Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203 ~~ FMI: ~~www.dazzlejazz.comor 303-839-5100. ~~ Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM and 10:30PM. ~~www.dazzlejazz.com.~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ ~~ FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY – Every Wed. to Sat. – Mark Sloniker and Friends ~~ at Jay’s Bistro, Old Town, Ft. Collins, Jays Bistro in Fort Collins with Mark Sloniker on piano and guestzz. The gig is from 7:30 to 10:45 (or 11:30PM). Jay’s Bistro 970-482-1876, 135 W Oak St, Fort Collins, CO 80524 ~~ www.jaysbistro.netOR www.marksloniker.com for his full sched & “Newsletter”. FREE ~~.

THURZZ ~ SAT ~~ Jazz @ Johnny’s Cigar Bar ~~ HitTime: 9PM – “Round Midnight at Johnnys,1801 13th Street, Boulder CO ~~ FMI: 303-449-0884 OR www.johnny’scigars.com~~ .

~~ D-Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, CO 80002 ~~ 303. GO.DNOTE~~ www.dnote.us/~~.

~~ FRI ~~  HitTime: 5PM & HitTime: 6PM  ~~ FRIZZ., FLO’ZZ UNDERGROUND ~~ Listen forward to The 2010 Academic Season With FLO’ZZ UNDERGROUND startzz itzza Winter/Spring ‘09 Season ~~  @ The Williams Recital Salon, Rm #121 (1ST FL) @ DU’zz Lamont School of Music ~~ Newman Ctr For The Performing Arts, Level II (Street Level), ~ @ 5:00PM ~ FREE ~ FMI: www.du.edu/lamont or 303.871.6412(Concert Line) or 303.871.7720(Newman Ctr Box Office). Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., (@ Iliff & University Avezz), DCO ~~ 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, CO 80208 ~~ Check out his music Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/lynnbakerjazzhome~~ and ~~~ The Lamont Jazz Orchestra Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/lamontjazzorchestra ~~ N.B: Malcolm Lynn Baker, Director of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, CO 80208 ~~ Check out his music Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/lynnbakerjazzhome ~~ and ~~~ The Lamont Jazz Orchestra Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/lamontjazzorchestra ~~.

~~FRIDAYZZ. ~~ Lunch Jazz @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 ~~ No cover ~~ www.dazzlejazz.comor 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 11am – 2pm. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~. FRIDAYS ~~~ Jazz @ Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, Colorado 80203. ~~~ FMI: 303-839.5100 ~~~ Dazzle is located between 9th and 10th Avenue on Lincoln Street in Denver, Colorado — www.dazzlejazz.com.  THE LATE SHOW —- 10:30pm :: $5 ~~ FRIZZ., at Del Frisco ~~~ Del’s Duo featurin’ Jazz, 8100 E Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 ~~ Hit Time: 7:30 PM ~~ FMI: Scott Thomas @djembe52@hotmail.com ~~.

~~ FRIDAYS ~~ Jazz at Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St. (@ 15TH ST) Denver, CO 80202 ~~ Hittime: 9:o0 – MIDNIGHT ~~ FMI: Bauer’s Ristorante ~~ www.baursdenver.com (303) 534-4842 ~ CALL FIRST ~~.

~~ FRI’ZZ., Piano Jazz @ The Burnsley Hotel 10th and Grant Street — Piano/Vocal Jazz in the lounge from 7:30-10:30 — FMI: www.burnsley.com or 303-830-1000 ~~.

~~ FRI., JAZZ @ Bliss Cafe, 7501 Grandview, in Old Town Arvada, CO 80002-2511 ~~ or 303-423-7770. HitTime: 8-11pm. FMI: www.theblisscafe.com or www.blisscafe.us. ~~ NO COVER~~.

~~ FRI., JAZZ @ India’s Pearl Restaurant, South Pearl St. and Florida next to the Sushi Den. HitTime: 9-12pm. CALL 1ST & CONFIRM. FMI: www.indiaspearl.com ~~.

~~ FRI ~~ FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY – Every Wed. to Sat. – Mark Sloniker and Friends ~~ at Jay’s Bistro, Old Town, Ft. Collins, Jays Bistro in Fort Collins with Mark Sloniker on piano and guestzz. The gig is from 7:30 to 10:45 (or 11:30PM). Jay’s Bistro 970-482-1876, 135 W Oak St, Fort Collins, CO 80524.www.jaysbistro.netor www.marksloniker.com for his full sched & “Newsletter”. FREE ~~.

~~ FRI ~~ JAZZ @ JazzMaTazz Lounge, 1612 E 17th Ave (nr the corner of Franklin St.). Denver, CO 80218 ~~ Eccletic Music On Tap (not always Jazz) ~~ HitTime: 8:30 – ‘Round Midnight ~~ FMI: www.jazzmatazzlounge.comOR (303) 333-3503. Music Fridays & Saturdays. Call 1ST to check schedule ~~ ALSO: Saturadayzz ~~ .

N.B: TO ALL JAZZ ARTISTZZ WHO WANT TO LIST THEIR GIGZZ: GO TO ~~www.rockymountainjazz.com~~ CLICK ON “CALENDAR” (on the left of the linkzz banner bar) ~~ scroll down about 3/4 of a “page” — CLICK ON THE RED FONT DIRECTIONS FOR ARTISTS LISTING THEIR ON GIGZZ ~~ BRING UP THE TEMPLATE, COMPLETE, & SUBMIT. That will get U both a “Monthly Calendar” listin’ & a weekly listing in the “News” Column (where U R right now!). GO FOR IT! ~~.

~~ Check For Jazz Gigzz: www.soileddove.com ~~.

~~ SAT., ~~ Vocal/Piano Jazz @ The Burnsley Hotel, 1000 Grant Street, Denver, CO In the lounge from 7:30-10:30 ~~ FMI: www.burnsley.com or 303-830-1000. Call ahead & check schedule ~~.

~~ SAT~~ JAZZ @ JazzMaTazz Lounge, 1612 E 17th Ave (nr the corner of Franklin St.). Denver, CO 80218 ~~ Eccletic Music On Tap (not always Jazz) ~~ HitTime: 8:30 – ‘Round Midnight ~~ FMI: www.jazzmatazzlounge.comOR (303) 333-3503. Music Fridays & Saturdays. Call 1ST to check schedule ~~ ALSO: Fridayzz ~~ .

~~ SATZZ., Jazz @ Del Frisco’s, 8100 E Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, CO 80111 ~~ Hit Time: 7:00 PM ~~ FMI: 303.796.0100 ~~ FMMI: Scott Thomas @ djembe52@hotmail.com~~.

~~ SAT, JAZZ @ Bliss Cafe, 7501 Grandview, in Old Town Arvada, CO 80002-2511 ~ or 303-423-7770. HitTime: 8-11pm. FMI: www.theblisscafe.com or www.blisscafe.us. ~~ NO COVER.

~~ SAT., JAZZ @ Johnny’s, 1801 13th Street, Boulder 80302, 303-449-0884 ~~ HitTime: 9PM – ‘Round Midnight ~~ FMI: 303-449-0884 or FMMI: If you haven’t been yet, it’s smoke free in the bar, you can buy cigars and smoke them in the sealed off back room or outside. Very nice listening venue with baby grand & REALLY, no smoke ~~.

~~ SAT., ~~ Jazz @ Sunny Side Cafe, 8800 Colorado Blvd., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 ~~~ Hit Time: 7:00PM ~~ FMI: www.visionjazzmusic.com ~~ Sunny Side opens at 5:00 for great dinner. Evening Concert @ 7pm.  FMMI: Burt Shur @ visionjazzmusic@aol.com~~.

~~ SAT., Pianist Mark Sloniker at Jays Bistro; 135 W. Oak in Fort Collins HitTime:. 8:30-11:30pm — www.jaysbistro.net or 970-482-1876 ~~ FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY – Every Wed. to Sat. – Mark Sloniker and Friends — at Jay’s Bistro, Old Town, Ft. Collins, Jays Bistro in Fort Collins with Mark Sloniker on piano and guestzz. The gig is from 7:30 to 10:45 (or 11:30PM). Jay’s Bistro 970-482-1876, 135 W Oak St, Fort Collins, CO 80524. www.jaysbistro.netor www.marksloniker.com for his full sched & “Newsletter”. FREE ~~.

~~ N.B II CHECK OUT “RMJB’zz NEW FEATURE ~~ Neditor’zz www.rockymountainjazz.com “RMJ MAP” for a comprehensive mappin’ of JAZZ VENUEZZ in N. CO & along The Front Range! Sign up for the weekly “RMJB” e-mailin’ featurin’ “HOT HITZZ” of the Jazz Week to come, as well as B’in’ hipped to other Jazz eventzz. N.B III ~~ FOR ADDITIONAL LIVE! JAZZ PERFORMANCE INFO ~~ GO TO: www.rockymountainjazz.com & CLICK ON “CALENDAR”! THE COLORADO JAZZ FESTIVAL SEASON CONTINUEZZ ~~.

~~ ~~ The Manuel Lopez Latin Jazz Trio ~~ Featuring Peter Ellingson on piano, Jimmy Trujillo on bass, Jose Espino on congas, and Manuel Lopez on drums @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Time: 9:00 PM ~~ NO COVER ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.comor 303.839.5100. ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz. Since its birth in April of 2007, the Manuel Lopez Latin Jazz Project has been recognized as “one of the top Latin Ensembles” in Colorado. The band was formed by Manuel Lopez as an outlet to perform Afro-Cuban music. Some of their influences are Cachao, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Chucho Valdez/Irakere, The Fort Apache Band, Paquito D’Rivera, Michel Camilo, and Oscar Hernandez. The project is continually seeking opportunities to keep their audiences listening and dancing ~~.

~~ SUNDAYZZ @ THE MERC ~~ Jazz Music & Dance at the Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver ~~ Hit Time: 8PM ~~ Dance lesson at 5:30 Swing dance and 6:30 p.m. Jitterbug ~~ Information is available by calling 303-294-9281 ~~ Reservations at 303-294-9258 ~~ Admission and Dance Lesson $8.00 or www.mercurycafe.comor jazzden@yahoogroups.comor Dan at dan@zjazz.net ~~.

~~ SUN  JAZZ @ The Crown Pub, 134 S College Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524-2809 ~~ FMI: (970) 484-5929 ORwww.crownpub.net ~~ Call 1ST ~~.

~~ SUN., ~~ Jazz@Jack’s ~~ Starting at 7:30 PM . JazzAtJacks.com ~~ Denver Pavilions, 1500 16th St #320, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ 303-433-1000. Also check: www.jazzatjazz.com.Nelson Rangell’s Straight Ahead Combo’zz starrin’ Eric Gunnison(p); Bijoux Barbosa(b); & Mike Marlier(d).www.JazzAtJacks.com ~~ Denver Pavilions, 1500 16th St #320, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ 303-433-1000. Also check: www.jazzatjazz.com. ~~ For more info: www.dotsero.orgor www.myspace.com/dotserojazz ~~.

~~ SUN.,  ~~ Virtuosic Pianist Joe Bonner @ The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., DCO ~~ HitTime: 8PM. FMI: www.mercurycafe.com or 303.294.9258 (reservations) or 303.294.9258(info) ~~.

~~ SUNDAYS @ The B-Side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, CO 80302. HitTime: 8:30-11:30PM ~~ FMI: www.thebsidelounge.com or 303.473.9463 ~~.

~~ SUN., ~~ The Dave Corbus Guitar Trio Featurin’ Bassist Ken Walker & Drummer Chris Lee @ The Washington Park Grill, 1096 S. Gaylord St., DCO ~~ HitTime: 6PM. FMI:www.washparkgrille.com or 303.777.0707  ~~ N.B: Dave Corbus’ latestCD is  ”Sound Down” on Graham Carter’zz Littleton Imprint, Jazzed Media ~~ www.jazzedmedia.com~~.

SUNDAYS ~~ The Ben Markley Quartet  featurin’ Ben Markley(p); Josh Quinlan(reeds); Kells Nollenberger(b); and Matt Amundson(d) @  El Chapultepec, 1926 Market St., LoDo 80202 ~~ HitTime:  9PM – 1AM ~~ FMI:  Ben Markley at benmarkley@hotmail.comOR 0r www.benmarkleymusic.com OR ~~ www.myspace.com/pecjazz .

~~ SUN., – Jazz @ Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13St, Boulder, CO (Boulder One Plaza/Ice Rink) – 7-10PM (no cover) — www.johnnyscigarbar.com.Check sched first. —For Art Lande’zz Sched:www.wheresart.comor www.artlande.com~~.

~~ MAKE NOTE!!!!! THE 2009 NEA JAZZ MASTERZZ BOOKLET (24 pages) IS AVAILABLE FOR free!!!!!!! Go to: http://www.arts.gov/pub/pubMusic.php P.S.THE COMPLETE NEA JAZZ MASTERZZ BOOKLET (110 pages + CD) is also AVAILABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See the previous RMJB/SOS (10/27/08) for additional story ~~.

~~ Hear Ye, Here Ye ~~ CHECK OUT:THE GIFT OF JAZZ www.giftofjazz.org ~~ AND IT IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPZZ ON GIVIN’! ~~.

~~ ** N.B: TO ALL JAZZ ARTISTZZ WHO WANT TO LIST THEIR GIGZZ: GO TO ~~ www.rockymountainjazz.com ~~ CLICK ON “CALENDAR” (on the left of the linkzz banner bar) ~~ scroll down about 3/4 of a “page” ~~ CLICK ON THE RED FONT DIRECTIONS FOR ARTISTS LISTING THEIR ON GIGZZ ~~ BRING UP THE TEMPLATE, COMPLETE, & SUBMIT. That will get U both a “Monthly Calendar” listin’ & a weekly listing in the “News” Column (where U R right now!). GO FOR IT! ~~.

~~ ALSO: ~~ FREE RADIO PROMO’ZZ @ ConcertCalendar@krfcfm.org ~~ To Access “Playlistzz” of Jazz Broadcasterzz GO TO: www.spinitron.com & CLICK ON THE STATION CALL LETTERZZ. ~~

~~ FYI: NORMAN PROVIZER’ZZ “JAZZ NOTES” LIVE! Like a phoenix, they have emerged outta the ashezz of “The RMN”, and landed in Jazz89~KUVO’zz weekly”Oasis Newsletter”. They’ll be posted EVERY THURZZ. Check: www.kuvo.org for access. ~~

~~ To Check Out The Jazz Programmers’ List: Jazz Programmers’ Mailing List:jazzproglist@jazzweek.com ~~ List information: http://lists.jazzweek.com/mailman/listinfo/jazzproglist~~ List archive: http://lists.jazzweek.com/pipermail/jazzproglist/ Sponsorship information: jplsponsor@jazzweek.com ~~ FREE LISTIN’ZZ FER YER GIGZZ @ KRFC FT COLLINS ~~ 88.9FM or www.krfcfm.org @ concertcalendar@krfcfm.org. ~~ Extra cut: The weekly “Playlist” of djSOS, aka Peter Poses, Host of “OverNight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” from “‘Round Midnight” every Thurs. to 6AM Fri., on KRFC FT COLLINS ~~~ HomeGrown Community Radio @ 88.9FM & streamin’ on www.krfcfm.org. KRFC FT COLLINS is located @ 619 S. College., #4, Ft Collins, CO 80524 ~~ 970.221.5075 ~~ Peter can be reached @ pposes@rockymountainjazz.com or pposes@gmail.com or 303.851.7265. Copies of djSOS’zz weekly “Playlistzz” are accessible on WWW.SPINITON.COM. Go to KRFC & “follow the bouncin’ ball”…

~~ THE NEXT WEEKZZ IN JAZZ ~~

~~ MON MAR 15TH ~~ The Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra in The Dazzle Showroom @  Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazzor www.metropolitanjazzorchestra.com ~~ Also: Gigzz Next Month (Check Dazzle Calendar) ~~.

WED MARCH 17TH ~~ Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm featurin’ Dan Fairchild(g); Paul Cotugno(p); Bijoux Barbosa(b); & Chris Lee(d) @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00PM ~~ Tickets: $15/$10[Students] ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~  Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

THURZZ MARCH 18TH & FRI MARCH 19TH ~~ The Robert Glasper Experiment @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~  Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

FRI MARCH 19TH ~~ The Robert Glasper Experiment @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7:00 & 9:00PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com~~  Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ SAT MAR 20TH ~~ Songster Mr. James Van Buren featurin’ Bruce Naylor(g); Jeff Jenkins(p);  Ken Walker(b); & Paul Romaine(d) @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~ FMMI:@ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~www.dazzlejazz.comor 303.839.5100. ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~ FMMI: JVB @ 720.988.7976  OR http://www.jamesvanburen.com/home.html ~~ .

~~ SAT MARCH 20TH 2010 ~~ SCHUUR DEAL ~~ The  Visionary Award Concert Honoring Mr. Donald Seawell & Featuring Legendary Jazz Performer & Grammy Award Winner Mzz. Diane Schuur @ The Seawell Ballroom at the DCPA Complex ~~ 6 pm VIP Reception/Award Ceremony @ The Curtis Hotel ~~ HitTime: 8 pm – Concert ~~ Reservations and information at www.blacktie-colorado.com or call ACBCO at 303-831-0117 ~~ Mission: The American Council of the Blind of Colorado (ACBCO) is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the independence, equality, and opportunities for all blind and visually impaired individual in the State of Colorado ~~ www.acbco.org ~~ Vision:  ACBCO exists so that The Blind and Visually Impaired in Colorado Will Function to Their Greatest Capacity, with results justifying expenditure of resources ~~  Values Statement:  ACBCO actions and culture are guided by integrity and inclusiveness in all our efforts to empower individuals involved with our work ~~  WORKING TOGETHER WE SHALL ACHIEVE OUR GOALS! ~~ ·Improve the social, economic, and cultural life of the blind or visually impaired of Colorado, and to stimulate, encourage, and assist the blind or visually impaired of this state to become active, productive, and responsible members of the community; ·Expand the scope and quality of education and rehabilitation services available to the blind or visually impaired of Colorado; ·Increase the available opportunities for the employment and/or the advancement of blind or visually impaired individuals of this state; ·Keep blind or visually impaired persons fully informed of opportunities, services and facilities made available to them by local, state, federal, and private agencies and organizations; ·Develop better understanding between blind or visually impaired people and their community by educating the general public as to the concerns and capabilities of blind or visually impaired people, and to combat both the exploitation of the blind or visually impaired and neglect of the welfare of blind or visually impaired persons ~~ Affiliate and cooperate with the American Council of the Blind, Inc., in the furtherance of the goals and principles of that organization, to promote within the American Council of the Blind, Inc. the principles and policies which have been endorsed by the blind or visually impaired of Colorado, and to bring to the attention of the American Council of the Blind, Inc., any problem affecting the welfare of the blind or visually impaired of Colorado; ·Cooperate with organizations, private and public, which promote the welfare of all people with disabilities ~~  An Inclusive Organization ~~ At ACBCO blind, visually impaired and sighted individuals work together to achieve our mission to serve all who are in need of our assistance throughout Colorado. ACBCO is a fully inclusive organization and welcomes all individuals regardless of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status ~~  ACBCO,  1536 Wynkoop St, Suite 201,   Denver, CO 80202 ~~ 303-831-0117 or toll free 1-888-775-2221 ~~ Fax:  303-454-3378 ~~ e-mail  ACBCO, Executive Director, Ms. Barbara Boyer at barbara.boyer@acbco.org ~~ FMI Thank you to our sponsors:  AMG National Trust Bank, KUVO Jazz 89.3, Denver Magazine and Wells Fargo ~~ Visit “Deedles” (Diane Schuur) athttp://www/dianeschuur.com ~~.

~~ GIFT OF JAZZ ~ www.giftofjazz.org ~ presents Maestro Chie Imaizumi’s Composition & Arranging Courses Session II ~~

Beginner Level 1: Saturdays 1pm – 2:20pm ~~

Where : Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge: 930 Lincoln St, Denver, CO

When : March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1 (7 week program)

Ages : 15 + Maximum Class Size : 25 students (16 student minimum required) ~~ Fee: $50.00 ~~  The Goal of this class is to compose one original song and perform your  own Music Preparation : Writing Music BY HAND (professional copyist level) ~~ The Relationship between Melody and Chord Structure ~~ Basic Chords and Tensions  ~~ Basic Re‐harmonization  ~~ Creating a Lead Sheet  Performing your own piece ~~

Beginner

Where : Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge: 930 Lincoln St, Denver, CO

When : March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1 (7 week program)

Ages : 18 +  Maximum Class Size : 20 students (15 student minimum required)  ~~ Fee: $70.00  ~~

The more than three musicians. At the end of the class your piece will be performed topics How to write and count advanced rhythms ~~ How to write a score and separate parts for each musician  ~~ More about harmonizing/re‐harmonizing melodies  ~~ Individual feedback and instruction during the composition process ~~ Basic writing for 1 – 2 horns : Instrumental ranges, characteristics, etc.

Advanced ~~ FOR EXPERIENCED MUSICIANS ONLY ~~ Minimum to write and transcribe music professionally.

Where : Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge: 930 Lincoln St, Denver, CO

When : March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15 (9 week program)

Ages : 18 +   Maximum Class Size: 15 students (12 student minimum required)  ~~  Fee: $150.00 ( included hiring musician’s fee) ~~ The Goal of this class is to compose & arrange one original song for 6 professional topics to include… Writing for 3 – 6 horns  + 4 piece rhythm section ~~ Orchestration  ~~ Arranging  ~~ Composition ~~ Conducting  ~~ Space is EXTREMELY LIMITED ~~ DEMAND IS HIGH ~~ Please contact Chie atchie@giftofjazz.org today! ~~ Chie is a native of Japan, Composer/Arranger/Conductor Chie Imaizumi has been named  ”The Place in the “Jazz” category in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, and Down Her weeks on the CMJ Jazz Top‐40 Chart, the Nationally Syndicated Radio Program “Listen into the studio to record her second CD for Capri Records in Jan 2010, with jazz legends Smulyan, Terell Stafford, Steve Wilson, Scott Robinson and others ~~ Throughout her career she has also served as a copyist and/or assistant to Mr. Teo  Macero, name a few ~~ To find out more about Chie Imaizumi, please go to http://www.thousandpictures.org ~~ .

~~ SUN MAR  21ST ~~ TBC ~~ THE BLIND TIGER HOUSE PARTY JAZZ SERIES ~~ The Blind Tiger: See “Speak Easy” ~~ The Gift of Jazz is pleased to present The Blind Tiger house party series – a fun monthly event for the serious jazz listener ~~ The first in the series of private themed jazz listening parties will be held on February 21st  from 3:00-6:00pm at a private residence in the foothills of Denver with spectacular Continental Divide views ~~ FEATURIN’ TBA ~~  and guest chef TBA will be providing culinary treats paired with libations. The event will be an intimate gathering and space is extremely limited ~~ WHERE: The event location will be sent to you in a confirmation email prior to the day of the event ~~ WHEN:  March  21, 2010, 3:00 till 6:00 PM. Monthly Series – Third Sundays. Check For Future Listings.COVER: $50 per person. Limited to the first 27 pre-paid reservations ~~ Limited to the first 27 pre-paid reservations. Please follow the link and fill out the Paypal reservation form. http://www.giftofjazz.org/index.php?s=43 ~~ Be sure to click the “Donate” button on the next page to complete your reservation ~~ RIFFZZ OF THE GIGZZ: No dietary or beverage requests ~ No refunds after all 27 tickets have been sold ~ All 27 tickets must be sold for the event to be held ~Interested in being our next guest chef? ~~ Please email Donald@giftofjazz.org ~~ Sign up here for early notification of the next Blind Tiger event ~~ Questions: Toni@giftofjazz.org OR www.giftofjazz.org ~~.

~~ SUN MARCH 21ST ~~ SPRING IS HERE (Because U B’lieved) ~~ West Side Books presents ~~ Jazz! ~~ Bassist Kent McLagan & Cornetist Ron Miles @ West Side Books 3434 W. 32nd Ave. (Near Lowell In The NW Denver Highlandzz), Denver 80211 ~~  HitTime: 7PM ~~ FMI: 303-480-0220 ~~ www.westsidebooks.comOR westsidebooks@qwestoffice.net ~~.

THURZZ, MAR 25TH ~~ PrimalMates Starrin’ Chris Lee – vibes & Colleen O’Brien, voice & cello @ INDIA’S PEARL, 1475 South Pearl Street, DENVER, CO 80210 ~~ (Very fine Indian Food and ambience) ~~ FMI: www.indiaspearl.com ~~ OR (303) 777-15337-10pm ~~ FMMI: www.primalmates.com ~~

~~ THURZZ MARCH 25TH  ~~ The Neil Bridge 7+ @ Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 6:00 & 8:00PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~  Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ FRI MAR 26TH &  SAT MAR 27TH ~~The Summit Jazz Foundation Presentzz Ken Peplowski(reeds), Jon-Erik Kelso(crnt), Ehud Asherie(p), Frank Tate(b), Howard Alden(g), & Don Grove(d) ~~ The Summit Jazz Foundation, P.O. Box 1150, Evergreen, CO 80437-1150 ~~ Phone: 303-670-8471 ~~ Fax: 360-379-8811 ~~ Email: info@summitjazz.org ORwww.summitjazz.org ~~ THEN In October: Fri Oct 1ST, Sat Oct 2nd, & Sun Oct 3RD Will Be Featured: The Jim Cullum Jazz Band; The High Sierra Jazz Band; The Titan Hot Seven; The Alan frederickson Jazz Ensemble; The Ivory & Gold Trio PLUS Antti Sarpila(reeds), John Cocuzzi(vbs), Jeff Barnhart(p), Nicki Parrott(b), & Danny Coots(d) .

~~ FRI MARCH 26TH ~~ The Ken Walker Sextet starrin’ Dave Corbus(g); Al Hood(brass); Peter Sommer(reeds); Jeff Jenkins(p); Ken Walker(b); & Paul Romaine @at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ SAT MARCH 27TH ~~ The Ralph Sharon Piano Trio featurin’ Dean Ross(b); & Ron Moewes(d) @at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100 ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ MON MAR  29TH ~~ The Steve Denny Piano Trio  featurin’ Marty Kenney(b) & Ben Waters(d) @at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100  ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~ U MAY KNO STEVE AS THE MUSIC MGR OF DAZZLE. BY REPUTATION, HE’ZZ A TERRIFIC PIANIST ~~ COME SEE & HEAR!!

~~ TUEZZ MARCH 30TH & WED MARCH 31TH ~~ The Ron Miles Brass Trio starrin’ Bill Frisell(g) and  Brian Blade(d) at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ TUEZZ MARCH 30TH ~~ THE AIRMEN OF NOTE JAZZ ORCHESTRA @ The Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10TH Ave., Greeley, CO ~~ FMI: www.ucstars.com OR 970.356.500 ~~.

~~ WED MARCH 31TH ~~ The Ron Miles Brass Trio starrin’ Bill Frisell(g) and  Brian Blade(d) at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 1ST ~ Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder ~~ 

CU-Boulder’s Artist Series invites you to experience guitarist/composer Lee Ritenour and pianist/composer Dave Grusin performing pieces from their Grammy-nominated album Amparo Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium.

Combining jazz and classical music, Amparo also fuses the duo’s Latin and folk influences. The two put their unique stamp on music by composers including Ravel, Handel, Albinoni, Jobim and Fauré with the help of CU-Boulder’s University Orchestra and conductor Gary Lewis. The second half of the program features music from Grusin’s award-winning film scores.

A free pre-concert conversation with CU-Boulder jazz studies professor Brad Goode will be held at 6:45 p.m. in Macky 102.

Ticket Information

Single tickets for this event are $12 to $52 with discounts for members of the CU community, seniors, youth and groups. Call the CU Presents Box Office at 303-492-8008 or visit http://www.cupresents.org for information or tickets for this performance.

Dave Grusin

Dave Grusin has worked in the music profession since the late 1950s, as an arranger, pianist, composer, and record producer. Born in Littleton, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he holds honorary doctoral degrees from CU and from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Grusin has written more than 60 film scores, including The Graduate, Tootsie, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. He has received eight Academy Award nominations, and he won an Oscar in 1988 for The Milagro Bean Field War. Most recently, he scored Recount for HBO. Grusin’s life as a recording artist and producer has resulted in 10 Grammy awards and numerous nominations, including one for Two Worlds in 2002, and another for Amparo in 2008. These two classical projects with guitarist Lee Ritenour feature performances by Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Chris Botti, and James Taylor, among others. He has also arranged for and/or performed with such artists as Quincy Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arnold Steinhardt, Bobby Macferrin, Peggy Lee, Patti Austin, Diana Krall, Grover Washington Jr., Earl Klugh, Arturo Sandoval, Clark Terry, Sergio Mendes, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Andy Williams, and Paul Simon. From 1976 to 1995, Grusin and Larry Rosen owned GRP records. Together they are also cofounders of the National Foundation for Jazz Education, a philanthropic group dedicated to helping young jazz musicians. In addition to his career in music, Grusin is a rancher and a dedicated environmental activist. He has been a frequent participant in the Annual Conference on World Affairs held in Boulder.

Lee Ritenour

Growing up in L.A. in the 60’s, Grammy award winning guitarist Lee Ritenour received a rich cross section of exposure to jazz, rock and Brazilian music. From one of his first sessions at 16 with the Mamas and Papas to accompanying Lena Horne and Tony Bennett at 18, his forty year eclectic and storied career is highlighted by a Grammy Award win for his 1986 collaboration with Dave Grusin, Harlequin; 17 Grammy nominations; numerous #1 spots in guitar polls and the prestigious “Alumnus of the Year” award from USC. He has recorded over 40 albums, with 35 chart songs, notably the Top 15 hit “Is It You,” which has become a contemporary jazz radio classic. In the 90s, Ritenour was a founding member of Fourplay, the most successful band in contemporary jazz, with keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. The first Fourplay album in 1991 spent an unprecedented 33 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart. Adding to this legacy is his latest CD Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors; the recently completed Grammy nominated recording Amparo, (a follow-up with Dave Grusin to their highly-successful 2001 Grammy Award nominated contemporary classical crossover CD) and producer of Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band’s latest CD Act Your Age (nominated for 3 Grammys).

About the Artist Series

The Artist Series, now in its 73rd season, has a rich tradition of bringing the finest performers in the world to Boulder’s Macky Auditorium. Recent performers on the series have included Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Hilary Hahn, and Arturo Sandoval. In addition to serving audiences with an exciting variety of performances, the Artist Series has an important educational mission, including outreach events planned in conjunction with almost every concert. The Artist Series is part of CU Presents which is hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music ~~ FMI: cwa-students@colorado.edu OR cwafans@colorado.edu ~~~~.

CU-Boulder’s Artist Series invites you to experience guitarist/composer Lee Ritenour and pianist/composer Dave Grusin performing pieces from their Grammy-nominated album Amparo Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium ~~ Combining jazz and classical music, Amparo also fuses the duo’s Latin and folk influences. The two put their unique stamp on music by composers including Ravel, Handel, Albinoni, Jobim and Fauré with the help of CU-Boulder’s University Orchestra and conductor Gary Lewis. The second half of the program features music from Grusin’s award-winning film scores ~~ A free pre-concert conversation with CU-Boulder jazz studies professor Brad Goode will be held at 6:45 p.m. in Macky 102 ~~ Ticket Information ~~ Single tickets for this event are $12 to $52 with discounts for members of the CU community, seniors, youth and groups. Call the CU Presents Box Office at 303-492-8008 or visit http://www.cupresents.org for information or tickets for this performance ~~ Dave Grusin ~~ Dave Grusin has worked in the music profession since the late 1950s, as an arranger, pianist, composer, and record producer. Born in Littleton, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he holds honorary doctoral degrees from CU and from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Grusin has written more than 60 film scores, including The Graduate, Tootsie, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. He has received eight Academy Award nominations, and he won an Oscar in 1988 for The Milagro Bean Field War. Most recently, he scored Recount for HBO. Grusin’s life as a recording artist and producer has resulted in 10 Grammy awards and numerous nominations, including one for Two Worlds in 2002, and another for Amparo in 2008. These two classical projects with guitarist Lee Ritenour feature performances by Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Chris Botti, and James Taylor, among others. He has also arranged for and/or performed with such artists as Quincy Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arnold Steinhardt, Bobby Macferrin, Peggy Lee, Patti Austin, Diana Krall, Grover Washington Jr., Earl Klugh, Arturo Sandoval, Clark Terry, Sergio Mendes, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Andy Williams, and Paul Simon. From 1976 to 1995, Grusin and Larry Rosen owned GRP records. Together they are also cofounders of the National Foundation for Jazz Education, a philanthropic group dedicated to helping young jazz musicians. In addition to his career in music, Grusin is a rancher and a dedicated environmental activist. He has been a frequent participant in the Annual Conference on World Affairs held in Boulder ~~ Lee Ritenour ~~ Growing up in L.A. in the 60’s, Grammy award winning guitarist Lee Ritenour received a rich cross section of exposure to jazz, rock and Brazilian music. From one of his first sessions at 16 with the Mamas and Papas to accompanying Lena Horne and Tony Bennett at 18, his forty year eclectic and storied career is highlighted by a Grammy Award win for his 1986 collaboration with Dave Grusin, Harlequin; 17 Grammy nominations; numerous #1 spots in guitar polls and the prestigious “Alumnus of the Year” award from USC. He has recorded over 40 albums, with 35 chart songs, notably the Top 15 hit “Is It You,” which has become a contemporary jazz radio classic. In the 90s, Ritenour was a founding member of Fourplay, the most successful band in contemporary jazz, with keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. The first Fourplay album in 1991 spent an unprecedented 33 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart. Adding to this legacy is his latest CD Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors; the recently completed Grammy nominated recording Amparo, (a follow-up with Dave Grusin to their highly-successful 2001 Grammy Award nominated contemporary classical crossover CD) and producer of Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band’s latest CD Act Your Age (nominated for 3 Grammys) ~~ About the Artist Series ~~ The Artist Series, now in its 73rd season, has a rich tradition of bringing the finest performers in the world to Boulder’s Macky Auditorium. Recent performers on the series have included Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Hilary Hahn, and Arturo Sandoval. In addition to serving audiences with an exciting variety of performances, the Artist Series has an important educational mission, including outreach events planned in conjunction with almost every concert. The Artist Series is part of CU Presents which is hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music ~~ FMI: Maura Clare,  Director of Public Affairs, Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, 465 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0465 ~~ 303.492.8611 ~~ 303.492.3934 ~~ ww.colorado.edu/cwa~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 1ST & FRI APRIL 2ND ~~ BrassMan Randy Brecker Starrin’ With Convergence at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~

~~ THURZZ APRIL 1ST & FRI APRIL 2ND ~~ BrassMan Randy Brecker Starrin’ With Convergence at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

FRI, APRIL 2ND ~~ THE HAL

ALPER TRIO Macky Room 1B03D

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ALPER TRIO Macky Room 1B03D

2pm
Clinic: Hal Galper, piano

Concert
Friday, April 2nd, 7:30pm
Hall Galper Trio (free admission)
Old Main, CU – Boulder campus

http://www.colorado.edu/music/departments/jazz/events.html

~~ MON APRIL 5TH ~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~~~ THE 62ND CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS @ CU Boulder ~~ http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/index.html ~~ ~~ MON APRIL 5TH ~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~~ CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS RETURNS FOR SIXTY-SECOND RUN ~~ The Sixty-second Annual Conference on World Affairs will be held April 5-9, 2010 on the university of Colorado’s Boulder campus. A cherished Boulder tradition since 1948, Conference on World Affairs audiences have doubled in size over the last decade.  Last year, a combined audience of 92,000 students, faculty, local, national and international visitors attended 200 sessions at the five-day Conference ~~ One of the most popular CWA events is the Annual Jazz Concert. This year’s lineup of world-class performers will convene on the stage at Macky Auditorium on Tuesday, April 6 at 8 p.m. As with all CWA sessions, the CWA Jazz Concert is free and open to the public, however, beginning this year seating will no longer be offered on a general admission basis.  Advance online ticketing for assigned seats will be available with a service charge of $1.  Instructions for online ticketing will be announced in early March via the CWA Fans e-list.  To become a member of the CWA Fans e-list and receive notice of jazz concert tickets and other CWA events, go to the Conference website www.colorado.edu/cwa and click on the “Sign Up Now!” button ~~ The theme of this year’s Conference is an affirmation of the organization’s core value: “Free Thinking.”  CWA director Jim Palmer explains, “Free Thinking is meant to describe both the Conference’s cost free attendance and our unrestricted, free-ranging topics and ideas.  We are committed to keeping the Conference free in both senses.” ~~ Donations to the Conference on World Affairs may be made online at KeepCWAfree.com  Additionally, the CWA is offering corporate sponsorship packages; contact Maura Clare, Director of Public Affairs, atcwa@colorado.edu ~~ The Conference on World Affairs was founded in 1948, originally as a forum on international affairs, gaining fame early on with notable participants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Miller and Henry Kissinger. The CWA now encompasses music, literature, the environment, science, journalism, visual arts, diplomacy, technology, spirituality, film, politics, business, medicine, human rights and as Roger Ebert says, “everything under the sun.”  Participants in recent years include Joe Biden, Charles Krauthammer, and Paul Krugman.  Rachel Maddow describes the Conference as “the antidote to the airless, etherized, surreality of what ‘conferences’ have become. Arrive cynical and above-it-all—leave with new, real friends and a smarter, humbler, more human take on your work and the world you’re changing.” ~~ All Conference on World Affairs sessions are free and open to the public, making the CWA the largest, most accessible event of its kind in the country ~~ A biographical listing of all Conference on World Affairs participants is online at www.colorado.edu/cwa. A complete schedule of events will be posted by the third week of March ~~ Contact: Graham Gerritsen, Office: 303.492.2515 ~~ Email: CWAPress@Colorado.edu ~~.

~~ WED APRIL  7TH ~~ Virtuosic Pianist Lenore Raphael featurin’ her Colorado Engine Room of Ken Walker(b) & Todd Reid(d) @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~ FMMI: www.lenoreraphael.com ~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 8TH & FRI APRIL 9TH ~~ Pianist Cyrus Chestnut at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~ HOT TIX ~~ Ethnomusicologist & Virtuosic Multi-Reedman Don Byron AND Maestro Gene Aitken @ Metro State College Of Denver’zz “Jazz Celebration ~~ please check:www.mscd.edu/~music/celebrations/jazz/index (Primary Link) ORwww.musicatmetro.orgORwww.ahec.edu/kingcenter 303.556.8666 & OR 303.556.2296 for up-comin’ detailzz about MASTER CLASSEZZ & CONCERTZZ ~~.

~~ APRIL 8TH, 9TH, & 10TH (Thurzz ~ Sat) ~ The 7TH Annual Earl Klugh Weekend Of Jazz At The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado, CO ~~ On Fri. ~~  Gerald Albright(reeds) & Kirk Whalum(reeds) and Madeleine Peyroux will be featured ~~ On Sat. ~~ Earl Klugh(g); and Al Jarreau will hold worth ~~ FMI: 866.696.1975 ~~ www.broadmoor.com ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 10TH ~~ THE EXTRAORDINARY POLISH BRASSMAN TOMASZ STANKO WITH HIS QUINTET STOPPIN’ OFF ON HIS WORLD TOUR @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 15TH ~~ Jazz Vocalist SUNNY WILKINSON With THE KEN WALKER QUARTET Starrin’ Peter Sommer(ts)(Eric Gunnison(p), Ken Walker(b), & Paul Romaine(d) Presented By The Cache La Poudre Middle School Music Department In Collaboration With The Rocky Mountain HS Music Department ~~Attention all jazz fans ~~ PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDARS ~~ A CONCERT YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS ~~ The CLP Middle School Music Department in collaboration with the RMHS Music Department would like to announce this year’s Artist in Residence, jazz vocalist SUNNY WILKINSON (Michigan State University) with THE KEN WALKER QUARTET (Eric Gunnison – piano, Ken Walker – bass, Paul Romaine – drums and Peter Sommer, tenor sax.) The concert will take place on April 15, 2010, 7pm (Doors open @ 6:30pm) at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado ~~ Cache La Poudre Middle School Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Rocky Mountain High School “Spotlight” will open this evening’s performance ~~ Tickets will go on sale at the Lincoln Center Box Office on March 2, 2010 for only $10 each ~~ 1-970-221-6730 (box office) or http://www.lctix.com ~~ Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday from 12:00pm-6pm. (Closed on Sunday’s and Monday’s) ~~ Lincoln Center Box Office is located at 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 ~~ Sunny Bio… Inventive and flexible, Sunny Wilkinson (Michigan State University) is a mischievous vocal stylist who loves to toy with rhythm and tonal color. Her wide range, marvelous intonation, effortless agility, and passion for what she sings make her a one-of-a-kind artist. As the daughter of a Methodist minister, Sunny grew up singing in church.  In Minnesota, where the school-band tradition was very strong, Sunny started playing trombone in the fourth grade and continued into college, where she played and sang in a “Blood, Sweat, and Tears” style band.  She also played and sang in the jazz band at Arizona State University, where she was majoring in Choral Education.  It was there that she had her first exposure to jazz music and has been hooked ever since.  After graduating from college, Sunny moved to Los Angeles to pursue her singing career.  She spent fifteen years there as a session singer, teacher, performer, and jazz recording artist.  After meeting her future husband at a jazz convention in Washington, DC, Sunny moved to Okemos, Michigan, in January of 1993 to be with her husband, Dr. Ron Newman, where she continues her music career. In January of 2008 Sunny released her latest CD, a duo project featuring Los Angeles based pianist Tom Garvin entitled A Gentle Time – When Sunny Meets Tom. On the Chase Music Group label, this disc is an intimate excursion through the art of the duo, highlighting Sunny and Tom’s 30-year musical relationship. Sunny’s big-band CD on Chartmaker Jazz is called Sunny Wilkinson “High Wire.”  It is a bold project of arresting big-band selections that celebrates Sunny’s soaring, swooping vocals in a lush setting of challenging and well-executed musical arrangements. Throughout “High Wire,” Sunny takes effortless flight in excellent musical company.  Whether scatting, hugging the lines with the horn section, improvising freely, or caressing each melody with her own brand of passionate, personal intensity, Sunny shows herself to be the consummate professional.  On this release, Sunny swoops, growls, and scats her way through the Chick Corea title cut, taken as a jazz waltz. She has never sounded better.  The CD also includes the familiar standardsExactly Like You, Thelonious Monk’s Straight, No Chaser, and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Agua De Beber.  Sunny’s warm vocals and the contrasting arranging styles of Newman, the angular modernist, and Argersinger, the classic swinger, makes this CD exciting, fresh, and rewarding to listen to. While living in Los Angeles, Sunny fell in love with eclectic styles of music. This is reflected in her 1993 release on Positive Music Records, Sunny Wilkinson.  Each tune chosen or written by Sunny has a very personal reason for being on the CD.  For instance, the lyric for Now They’re Gone, written by Sunny and Roger Treece, was inspired by her son’s love of dinosaurs.  The stylistic range of the CD demonstrates her pure, unadulterated jazz ability as well as her love for contemporary and Brazilian music.  In her own words, “I’m thrilled with this CD.  The songs, the incredible musicians, and Michael Shapiro’s production have come together to make magic.” In September 1992, Sunny recorded a live version of the Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams standard, Round Midnight, with full orchestra, for Honda of Japan.  This national television-ad campaign for the Honda Prelude was released as a single CD by Hibrite Records of Japan. In October of 1989, Sunny had the good fortune to record her debut CD, Alegria, for Hibrite records of Japan.  StixHooper, the diverse and talented drummer of the Jazz Crusaders, produced this project, with such stellar players as John Patitucci and Ernie Watts adding their special touch to make this a very memorable record.  Swing Journal heralded its arrival on the charts at number five in Japan. Her performance credits are impressive, having sung with The Count Basie Band, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Mark Murphy, Milt Hinton, Kenny Wheeler, Clark Terry, Bill Watrous, Curtis Fuller, and Edgar Winter, among others.  A busy travel schedule has her doing clinics and performances at university and school jazz festivals as well as jazz clubs across the United States ~~ FMI:http://www.sunnywilkinson.com ~~ FMMI: Tony Gezzi ~~ Director of Bands/Choirs ~~ Cache La Poudre Middle School ~~ 3515 W. Cty. Rd. 54G ~~ Laporte, Colorado 80535 ~~ (970) 488-7445 ~~ agezzi@psdschools.org ~~ Thank you Bohemian Foundation for Supporting Music and the Artist in Residence Program in PSD ~~

~~ THURZZ APRIL 15TH & FRIAPRIL 16TH ~~ MULTI-REEDIST TIA FULLER WILL BE CELEBRATIN’ THE RELEASE OF HER NEW MACK AVE CD @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~  FRIAPRIL 16TH ~~ MULTI-REEDIST TIA FULLER WILL BE CELEBRATIN’ THE RELEASE OF HER NEW MACK AVE CD @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 17TH ~~ The Glenn Miller (Ghost) Orchestra Under The Direction Of Maestro Larry O’Brien @ The Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ (303) 623-0106~~ www.paramountdenver.com ~~ A Benefit For KBD112 ~~ Colorado Public Television ~~  www.kbdi.org ~~ 303.296.1212 ~~ www.tickethorse.com ~~ 866.461.6556 ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 17TH & SUN APRIL 18TH ~~TENORIST KEITH OXMAN WILL BE PRESENTIN’ NEA JAZZ MASTER TROMBONIST CURTIS FULLER at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ.  APRIL 22ND  2010 ~~ SONGSTRESS PATTI AUSTIN @ THE 2010 UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL ~~ @ 7:30PM  in Monfort Hall of the UCCC in Greeley ~~ Kevin Whalen ~~ Managing Producer, UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Instructor of Jazz Trumpet, Co-Director, UNC Jazz Camp, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 28, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80639 ~~ Office: 970-351-2394 or Fax: 970-351-2536or www.uncjazz.com orwww.uncjazzfest.comorwww.kevinwhalenjazz.com~~ Stay tuned fer MORE INFO @www.uncjazz.com.

FRI APRIL 23RD ~ SAT MAY 1ST ~~ KRFC FT COLLINS SPRING MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ~~ PLEDGE EARLY & PLEDGE OFTEN ~~ THANX IN ADVANCE ~~ djSOS, Host Of “Overnight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” ‘Round Midnight Thurzz To 6AM Fri ~~ .

FRI APRIL 23RD ~~ THE HEADLIN’ EVENT ~~ THE CLAYTON-HAMILTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA@THE 2010 UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL @ 7:30PM  in Monfort Hall of the UCCC in Greeley ~~ Kevin Whalen ~~ Managing Producer, UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Instructor of Jazz Trumpet, Co-Director, UNC Jazz Camp, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 28, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80639 ~~ Office: 970-351-2394 or Fax: 970-351-2536 orwww.uncjazz.comorwww.uncjazzfest.comor www.kevinwhalenjazz.com~~ Stay tuned fer MORE INFO @www.uncjazz.com ~~ SAT APRIL 24TH ~~ A SALUTE TO THE DRUMMERS OF THE WOODY HERMAN HERDZZ ~~ Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, AND Ed Soph ~~.

SAT APRIL 22-24 ~~ UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL, NOW CELEBRATING 40 YEARS, ANNOUNCES ARTIST LINEUP (Greeley, CO) The University of Northern Colorado is pleased to announce the artist lineup for the 40th Annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, to be held THURZZ ~ SAT APRIL 22-24, 2010, in downtown Greeley, Colorado.2010 marks the 40th year of the festival, which is the largest event of its kind in the nation, the longestrunning jazz festival in Colorado, and a cultural cornerstone in Northern Colorado ~~ This year’s festival proudly presents Patti Austin (Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist) with the  DownBeat Award-winning UNC Jazz Lab Band I; the Northern Colorado Voices (UNC’s premier vocal jazz group); the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (world famous big band with Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton); a special Woody Herman Tribute and Drum Summit featuring alumni drummers Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, Ed Soph, and more; and the Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band with Gene Aitken featuring the world premieres of 5 newly commissioned pieces ~~ Concerts begin at 7:30pm April 22-24 at the Union Colony Civic Center, located at 701 10th Avenue in Greeley, Colorado. Tickets are available now by calling 800-315-2787 or 970-356-5000, or online at www.ucstars.com ~~ A limited number of student discount tickets will also be available ~~ In addition to the main stage concerts, the festival presents hundreds of hours of educational activities plus late-night jazz sessions (see “Educational Activities” and “After-Hours Sessions” below) ~~ For more information, visitwww.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival is a university/community partnership offering outstanding jazz artists and educational activities in pursuit of the mission and vision of the University, as well as the festival’s partners and sponsors. The festival is made possible by the UNC Jazz Studies Program, the UNC College of Performing and Visual Arts, the City of Greeley, the Colorado Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Colorado General Assembly, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that, “a great nation deserves great art.” For a complete list of sponsors, visitwww.uncjazzfest.com~~ UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival Announces Artist Lineup ~~ Educational ActivitiesEach day, student groups from throughout the U.S. perform for enthusiastic audiences and nationallyrecognized artist/clinicians. In all, nearly three hundred groups will perform in five venues throughout downtown Greeley. The 2009 festival welcomed middle school, high school, college, and semi-professional groups from fifteen states and Thailand. In addition, the clinicians and main stage artists will present educational workshops on a variety of topics. All daytime activities are free and open to the public. For more information, workshop schedules, or to register to participate, visit www.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ AFTER HOURS PERFORMANCEZZ ~~ Friday and Saturday evening, from 10:30pm-1:00am, After Hours Performances are presented in anintimate club atmosphere at the Kress Cinema & Lounge in downtown Greeley. These performanceswill feature saxophonist Don Aliquo, trumpeter Clay Jenkins, and trombonist Paul McKee with the UNCJazz Faculty Trio. The UNC Jazz Faculty Trio includes members Dana Landry on piano, Erik Applegate on bass, and Jim White on drums. After Hours Performances are free and open to all ages on a firstcome, first-served basis; no reservations are necessary ~~ For more information, visit www.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ ARTIST BOIS ~~ THURZZ, APRIL 22ND ~~ Patti Austin with UNC Jazz Lab Band I ~~ Northern Colorado Voices She crosses all musical genres, has made 16 solo albums, and has performed her award-nominated hit songs on the Grammys and the Oscars. She is Patti Austin – whose extraordinary career continues to cross over boundaries and reach new heights. After making her debut at the Apollo Theater with Dinah Washington at the age of 4, she has gone on to win a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, record and perform with artists from Quincy Jones to Paul Simon to the WDR Big Band, and sang the duet “It’s Falling In Love” with Michael Jackson from his album Off The Wall. Ms. Austin will perform tributes to George Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald with the DownBeat Award Wining UNC Jazz Lab Band I, a presentation that Patti has also performed with the bands of Duke Ellington, John Clayton, and Count Basie ~~www.pattiaustin.com ~~ Northern Colorado Voices is the flagship ensemble of UNC’s award-winning Vocal Jazz Program and is following in the footsteps of DownBeat Award-winning groups Sus 4 and the Axidentals ~~ In addition, they were recently finalists in the Harmony Sweepstakes Competition ~~www.uncjazz.com  UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival Announces Artist Lineup ~~FRI APR 23RD ~~ The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra ~~ UNC Vanguard Combo Regarded as one of the premier big bands in the U.S., the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra was formed in 1985 by bassist/composer John Clayton, saxophonist Jeff Clayton, and drummer Jeff Hamilton together with an all-star lineup of Los Angeles-based musicians. The group’s debut recording, Groove Shop, was nominated for a Grammy award and was named one of the best recordings of 1990 by CD Review ~~ The high acclaim the Orchestra has received sparked an invitation to become the Ensemble-In-Residence of Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl from 1999-2001 ~~ www.johnclaytonjazz.com ~~www.hamiltonjazz.com ~~ The UNC Vanguard Combo is UNC’s top small jazz ensemble. Its members are all composers/arrangers, and most of the group’s repertoire consists of original compositions written specifically for the group. The group is carrying on a long-standing tradition of DownBeat Awardwinning UNC jazz ensembles~~ www.uncjazz.com ~~ SAT APRIL 24TH ~~ Woody Herman Tribute and Drum Summit featuring Jeff Hamilton,John Riley, Ed Soph, and more The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, and Ed Soph are respected as some of the finest big band jazz drummers of this generation. Each with extensive individual credits and performances with artists from Stan Kenton to Keith Jarrett, all of these drummers were members of the famed Woody Herman Orchestra, known as one of the most exciting and significant big bands in jazz history. The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival will present a special tribute to the great Herman band with three of its finest alumni drummers and additional guest alumni ~~ www.hamiltonjazz.com~~www.johnriley.org ~~www.jazz.unt.edu/node/117 (Ed Soph) ~~ The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band is the festival’s professional  big band in residence. Comprised of some of the festival’s nationally respected artist/clinicians, theirrepertoire includes music by its members and will also feature the world premieres of five newly commissioned pieces.The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band will be conducted by Gene Aitken, UNC professor emeritus and former Director of Jazz Studies ~~ www.uncjazzfest.com OR www.geneaitken.com OR Contact: Kevin Whalen kevin.whalen@unco.eduOR 970-351-2394 OR www.uncjazzfest.com OR Fax: 970-351-2536 ~~.

~~ SUN APRIL 25TH~~ Dale Bruning & Jude Hibler ~~ JLE’s First House Party – It’s About Time!  ~~ Virtuosic Guitarist Dale Bruning and Jazz Narrator/Historian Mzz. Jude Hibler  will be performing their1ST JLE The Great American Songbook House Party Concert in a home ~~ Jazz Host Family, Dea and Bob Brayden ~~ @ 11562 W. 28th Ave., Lakewood. in Lakewood ~~ We are calling it “It’s About Time!” – with the songs based on the theme, of course, of “time.” ~~ Joining them will be Bassist Mark Simon ~~ The $27 tickets (sales tax included) can be ordered from their website OR by calling our office at 303-776-1764~~ It’s About Time Concert Tickets ~~ Seating is limited – a maximum of 45 people – first come, first served ~~ For questions & FMI: call the JLE office at 303-776-1764 or email us ~~ at info@jazzlinkenterprises.com ~~ Jazz Link Enterprises is pleased to announce the release of its latest CD, The Dale Bruning Quintet: Classical Connections, Vol II ~~ Special guest is flutist Ali Ryerson with Jeff Jenkins, piano, Mark Simon, bass, and Paul Romaine, drums ~~ This CD represents the second show of a live concert we performed in November, 2006 in Denver, Colorado ~~ To hear samples and to purchase this CD for $15 follow this link: Classical Connections Vol II ~~ FFMI: Jazz Link Enterprises, 3721 Columbia Dr., Longmont, CO 80503 ~~ 303-776-1764 OR info@jazzlinkenterprises.comOR www.jazzlinkenterprises.com ~~.

~~ SUN APRIL  25TH ~~ THE NINTH + LINCOLN ORCHESTRA Under The Baton Of Maestro Tyler Gilmore @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

WED MAY 5TH ~~ Guitarist Pat Metheny & THE ORCHESTRION TOUR @ The Paramount Theater,1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ (303) 623 .0106 ~~ www.paramountdenver.com ~~

SAT MAY 22ND ~~ THE ANNUAL 5 POINTZZ JAZZ FESTIVAL ~~ Stay tuned for detailzz ~~ Mark your calendar!  Additional info soon at www.DenverGov.org/5PointsJazz ~~.

~~ SAT JUNE 12TH & SUN JUNE 13TH ~~  JazzFest DENVER 2010 @ City Hall Event Center ~~ Denver’s newest indoor/outdoor venue ~~ situated in the heart of the city at 1144 Broadway, Denver ~~ FMI:  http://www.coclubs.com ~~ Tickets on Sale online April 1, 2010 at www.jazzfestdenver.org ~~ Perspective line-up & HitTimezz (subject to change) ~~ SAT JUNE 12TH ~~ Karrin Allyson Quartet featurin’  Rod Fleeman, Eric Montzka, Larry Kohut ~~ The  East -West Trumpet Summit starrin’  Thomas Marriott, Ray Vega, Phil Sparks, Travis Shook, Matt Jorgensen ~~ Brad Goode Polytonal Dance Party starrin’ Jeff Jenkins, Ken Walker, Bill Kopper, Anthony Lee  SUN JUNE 13TH ~~ The  Bobby Watson Quartet starrin’  Orrin Evans(p), Curtis Lundy(b), & Eric Kennedy(d); followed by The Trio de Paz featurin’  Romero Lubambo(g), Nilson Matta(b), & Duduka da Fonseca(d) ~~

~~ THURZZ APRIL 1ST & FRI APRIL 2ND ~~ BrassMan Randy Brecker Starrin’ With Convergence at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ MON APRIL 5TH ~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~~~ THE 62ND CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS @ CU Boulder ~~ http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/index.html ~~ ~~ MON APRIL 5TH ~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~~ CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS RETURNS FOR SIXTY-SECOND RUN ~~ The Sixty-second Annual Conference on World Affairs will be held April 5-9, 2010 on the university of Colorado’s Boulder campus. A cherished Boulder tradition since 1948, Conference on World Affairs audiences have doubled in size over the last decade.  Last year, a combined audience of 92,000 students, faculty, local, national and international visitors attended 200 sessions at the five-day Conference ~~ One of the most popular CWA events is the Annual Jazz Concert. This year’s lineup of world-class performers will convene on the stage at Macky Auditorium on Tuesday, April 6 at 8 p.m. As with all CWA sessions, the CWA Jazz Concert is free and open to the public, however, beginning this year seating will no longer be offered on a general admission basis.  Advance online ticketing for assigned seats will be available with a service charge of $1.  Instructions for online ticketing will be announced in early March via the CWA Fans e-list.  To become a member of the CWA Fans e-list and receive notice of jazz concert tickets and other CWA events, go to the Conference website www.colorado.edu/cwa and click on the “Sign Up Now!” button ~~ The theme of this year’s Conference is an affirmation of the organization’s core value: “Free Thinking.”  CWA director Jim Palmer explains, “Free Thinking is meant to describe both the Conference’s cost free attendance and our unrestricted, free-ranging topics and ideas.  We are committed to keeping the Conference free in both senses.” ~~ Donations to the Conference on World Affairs may be made online at KeepCWAfree.com  Additionally, the CWA is offering corporate sponsorship packages; contact Maura Clare, Director of Public Affairs, atcwa@colorado.edu ~~ The Conference on World Affairs was founded in 1948, originally as a forum on international affairs, gaining fame early on with notable participants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Miller and Henry Kissinger. The CWA now encompasses music, literature, the environment, science, journalism, visual arts, diplomacy, technology, spirituality, film, politics, business, medicine, human rights and as Roger Ebert says, “everything under the sun.”  Participants in recent years include Joe Biden, Charles Krauthammer, and Paul Krugman.  Rachel Maddow describes the Conference as “the antidote to the airless, etherized, surreality of what ‘conferences’ have become. Arrive cynical and above-it-all—leave with new, real friends and a smarter, humbler, more human take on your work and the world you’re changing.” ~~ All Conference on World Affairs sessions are free and open to the public, making the CWA the largest, most accessible event of its kind in the country ~~ A biographical listing of all Conference on World Affairs participants is online at www.colorado.edu/cwa. A complete schedule of events will be posted by the third week of March ~~ Contact: Graham Gerritsen, Office: 303.492.2515 ~~ Email: CWAPress@Colorado.edu ~~.

~~ WED APRIL  7TH ~~ Virtuosic Pianist Lenore Raphael featurin’ her Colorado Engine Room of Ken Walker(b) & Todd Reid(d) @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~ FMMI: www.lenoreraphael.com ~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 8TH & FRI APRIL 9TH ~~ Pianist Cyrus Chestnut at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com ~~ Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ FRI APRIL 9TH ~ HOT TIX ~~ Ethnomusicologist & Virtuosic Multi-Reedman Don Byron AND Maestro Gene Aitken @ Metro State College Of Denver’zz “Jazz Celebration ~~ please check:www.mscd.edu/~music/celebrations/jazz/index (Primary Link) ORwww.musicatmetro.orgORwww.ahec.edu/kingcenter 303.556.8666 & OR 303.556.2296 for up-comin’ detailzz about MASTER CLASSEZZ & CONCERTZZ ~~.

~~ APRIL 8TH, 9TH, & 10TH (Thurzz ~ Sat) ~ The 7TH Annual Earl Klugh Weekend Of Jazz At The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado, CO ~~ On Fri. ~~  Gerald Albright(reeds) & Kirk Whalum(reeds) and Madeleine Peyroux will be featured ~~ On Sat. ~~ Earl Klugh(g); and Al Jarreau will hold worth ~~ FMI: 866.696.1975 ~~ www.broadmoor.com ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 10TH ~~ THE EXTRAORDINARY POLISH BRASSMAN TOMASZ STANKO WITH HIS QUINTET STOPPIN’ OFF ON HIS WORLD TOUR @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ APRIL 15TH ~~ Jazz Vocalist SUNNY WILKINSON With THE KEN WALKER QUARTET Starrin’ Peter Sommer(ts)(Eric Gunnison(p), Ken Walker(b), & Paul Romaine(d) Presented By The Cache La Poudre Middle School Music Department In Collaboration With The Rocky Mountain HS Music Department ~~Attention all jazz fans ~~ PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDARS ~~ A CONCERT YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS ~~ The CLP Middle School Music Department in collaboration with the RMHS Music Department would like to announce this year’s Artist in Residence, jazz vocalist SUNNY WILKINSON (Michigan State University) with THE KEN WALKER QUARTET (Eric Gunnison – piano, Ken Walker – bass, Paul Romaine – drums and Peter Sommer, tenor sax.) The concert will take place on April 15, 2010, 7pm (Doors open @ 6:30pm) at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado ~~ Cache La Poudre Middle School Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Rocky Mountain High School “Spotlight” will open this evening’s performance ~~ Tickets will go on sale at the Lincoln Center Box Office on March 2, 2010 for only $10 each ~~ 1-970-221-6730 (box office) or http://www.lctix.com ~~ Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday from 12:00pm-6pm. (Closed on Sunday’s and Monday’s) ~~ Lincoln Center Box Office is located at 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 ~~ Sunny Bio… Inventive and flexible, Sunny Wilkinson (Michigan State University) is a mischievous vocal stylist who loves to toy with rhythm and tonal color. Her wide range, marvelous intonation, effortless agility, and passion for what she sings make her a one-of-a-kind artist. As the daughter of a Methodist minister, Sunny grew up singing in church.  In Minnesota, where the school-band tradition was very strong, Sunny started playing trombone in the fourth grade and continued into college, where she played and sang in a “Blood, Sweat, and Tears” style band.  She also played and sang in the jazz band at Arizona State University, where she was majoring in Choral Education.  It was there that she had her first exposure to jazz music and has been hooked ever since.  After graduating from college, Sunny moved to Los Angeles to pursue her singing career.  She spent fifteen years there as a session singer, teacher, performer, and jazz recording artist.  After meeting her future husband at a jazz convention in Washington, DC, Sunny moved to Okemos, Michigan, in January of 1993 to be with her husband, Dr. Ron Newman, where she continues her music career. In January of 2008 Sunny released her latest CD, a duo project featuring Los Angeles based pianist Tom Garvin entitled A Gentle Time – When Sunny Meets Tom. On the Chase Music Group label, this disc is an intimate excursion through the art of the duo, highlighting Sunny and Tom’s 30-year musical relationship. Sunny’s big-band CD on Chartmaker Jazz is called Sunny Wilkinson “High Wire.”  It is a bold project of arresting big-band selections that celebrates Sunny’s soaring, swooping vocals in a lush setting of challenging and well-executed musical arrangements. Throughout “High Wire,” Sunny takes effortless flight in excellent musical company.  Whether scatting, hugging the lines with the horn section, improvising freely, or caressing each melody with her own brand of passionate, personal intensity, Sunny shows herself to be the consummate professional.  On this release, Sunny swoops, growls, and scats her way through the Chick Corea title cut, taken as a jazz waltz. She has never sounded better.  The CD also includes the familiar standardsExactly Like You, Thelonious Monk’s Straight, No Chaser, and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Agua De Beber.  Sunny’s warm vocals and the contrasting arranging styles of Newman, the angular modernist, and Argersinger, the classic swinger, makes this CD exciting, fresh, and rewarding to listen to. While living in Los Angeles, Sunny fell in love with eclectic styles of music. This is reflected in her 1993 release on Positive Music Records, Sunny Wilkinson.  Each tune chosen or written by Sunny has a very personal reason for being on the CD.  For instance, the lyric for Now They’re Gone, written by Sunny and Roger Treece, was inspired by her son’s love of dinosaurs.  The stylistic range of the CD demonstrates her pure, unadulterated jazz ability as well as her love for contemporary and Brazilian music.  In her own words, “I’m thrilled with this CD.  The songs, the incredible musicians, and Michael Shapiro’s production have come together to make magic.” In September 1992, Sunny recorded a live version of the Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams standard, Round Midnight, with full orchestra, for Honda of Japan.  This national television-ad campaign for the Honda Prelude was released as a single CD by Hibrite Records of Japan. In October of 1989, Sunny had the good fortune to record her debut CD, Alegria, for Hibrite records of Japan.  StixHooper, the diverse and talented drummer of the Jazz Crusaders, produced this project, with such stellar players as John Patitucci and Ernie Watts adding their special touch to make this a very memorable record.  Swing Journal heralded its arrival on the charts at number five in Japan. Her performance credits are impressive, having sung with The Count Basie Band, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Mark Murphy, Milt Hinton, Kenny Wheeler, Clark Terry, Bill Watrous, Curtis Fuller, and Edgar Winter, among others.  A busy travel schedule has her doing clinics and performances at university and school jazz festivals as well as jazz clubs across the United States ~~ FMI:http://www.sunnywilkinson.com ~~ FMMI: Tony Gezzi ~~ Director of Bands/Choirs ~~ Cache La Poudre Middle School ~~ 3515 W. Cty. Rd. 54G ~~ Laporte, Colorado 80535 ~~ (970) 488-7445 ~~ agezzi@psdschools.org ~~ Thank you Bohemian Foundation for Supporting Music and the Artist in Residence Program in PSD ~~

~~ THURZZ APRIL 15TH & FRIAPRIL 16TH ~~ MULTI-REEDIST TIA FULLER WILL BE CELEBRATIN’ THE RELEASE OF HER NEW MACK AVE CD @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~  FRIAPRIL 16TH ~~ MULTI-REEDIST TIA FULLER WILL BE CELEBRATIN’ THE RELEASE OF HER NEW MACK AVE CD @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 17TH ~~ The Glenn Miller (Ghost) Orchestra Under The Direction Of Maestro Larry O’Brien @ The Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ (303) 623-0106~~ www.paramountdenver.com ~~ A Benefit For KBD112 ~~ Colorado Public Television ~~  www.kbdi.org ~~ 303.296.1212 ~~ www.tickethorse.com ~~ 866.461.6556 ~~.

~~ SAT APRIL 17TH & SUN APRIL 18TH ~~TENORIST KEITH OXMAN WILL BE PRESENTIN’ NEA JAZZ MASTER TROMBONIST CURTIS FULLER at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7 & 9 PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

~~ THURZZ.  APRIL 22ND  2010 ~~ SONGSTRESS PATTI AUSTIN @ THE 2010 UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL ~~ @ 7:30PM  in Monfort Hall of the UCCC in Greeley ~~ Kevin Whalen ~~ Managing Producer, UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Instructor of Jazz Trumpet, Co-Director, UNC Jazz Camp, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 28, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80639 ~~ Office: 970-351-2394 or Fax: 970-351-2536or www.uncjazz.com orwww.uncjazzfest.comorwww.kevinwhalenjazz.com~~ Stay tuned fer MORE INFO @www.uncjazz.com.

FRI APRIL 23RD ~ SAT MAY 1ST ~~ KRFC FT COLLINS SPRING MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ~~ PLEDGE EARLY & PLEDGE OFTEN ~~ THANX IN ADVANCE ~~ djSOS, Host Of “Overnight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” ‘Round Midnight Thurzz To 6AM Fri ~~ .

FRI APRIL 23RD ~~ THE HEADLIN’ EVENT ~~ THE CLAYTON-HAMILTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA@THE 2010 UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL @ 7:30PM  in Monfort Hall of the UCCC in Greeley ~~ Kevin Whalen ~~ Managing Producer, UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Instructor of Jazz Trumpet, Co-Director, UNC Jazz Camp, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Box 28, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80639 ~~ Office: 970-351-2394 or Fax: 970-351-2536 orwww.uncjazz.comorwww.uncjazzfest.comor www.kevinwhalenjazz.com~~ Stay tuned fer MORE INFO @www.uncjazz.com ~~ SAT APRIL 24TH ~~ A SALUTE TO THE DRUMMERS OF THE WOODY HERMAN HERDZZ ~~ Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, AND Ed Soph ~~.

SAT APRIL 22-24 ~~ UNC/GREELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL, NOW CELEBRATING 40 YEARS, ANNOUNCES ARTIST LINEUP (Greeley, CO) The University of Northern Colorado is pleased to announce the artist lineup for the 40th Annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, to be held THURZZ ~ SAT APRIL 22-24, 2010, in downtown Greeley, Colorado.2010 marks the 40th year of the festival, which is the largest event of its kind in the nation, the longestrunning jazz festival in Colorado, and a cultural cornerstone in Northern Colorado ~~ This year’s festival proudly presents Patti Austin (Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist) with the  DownBeat Award-winning UNC Jazz Lab Band I; the Northern Colorado Voices (UNC’s premier vocal jazz group); the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (world famous big band with Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton); a special Woody Herman Tribute and Drum Summit featuring alumni drummers Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, Ed Soph, and more; and the Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band with Gene Aitken featuring the world premieres of 5 newly commissioned pieces ~~ Concerts begin at 7:30pm April 22-24 at the Union Colony Civic Center, located at 701 10th Avenue in Greeley, Colorado. Tickets are available now by calling 800-315-2787 or 970-356-5000, or online at www.ucstars.com ~~ A limited number of student discount tickets will also be available ~~ In addition to the main stage concerts, the festival presents hundreds of hours of educational activities plus late-night jazz sessions (see “Educational Activities” and “After-Hours Sessions” below) ~~ For more information, visitwww.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival is a university/community partnership offering outstanding jazz artists and educational activities in pursuit of the mission and vision of the University, as well as the festival’s partners and sponsors. The festival is made possible by the UNC Jazz Studies Program, the UNC College of Performing and Visual Arts, the City of Greeley, the Colorado Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Colorado General Assembly, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that, “a great nation deserves great art.” For a complete list of sponsors, visitwww.uncjazzfest.com~~ UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival Announces Artist Lineup ~~ Educational ActivitiesEach day, student groups from throughout the U.S. perform for enthusiastic audiences and nationallyrecognized artist/clinicians. In all, nearly three hundred groups will perform in five venues throughout downtown Greeley. The 2009 festival welcomed middle school, high school, college, and semi-professional groups from fifteen states and Thailand. In addition, the clinicians and main stage artists will present educational workshops on a variety of topics. All daytime activities are free and open to the public. For more information, workshop schedules, or to register to participate, visit www.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ AFTER HOURS PERFORMANCEZZ ~~ Friday and Saturday evening, from 10:30pm-1:00am, After Hours Performances are presented in anintimate club atmosphere at the Kress Cinema & Lounge in downtown Greeley. These performanceswill feature saxophonist Don Aliquo, trumpeter Clay Jenkins, and trombonist Paul McKee with the UNCJazz Faculty Trio. The UNC Jazz Faculty Trio includes members Dana Landry on piano, Erik Applegate on bass, and Jim White on drums. After Hours Performances are free and open to all ages on a firstcome, first-served basis; no reservations are necessary ~~ For more information, visit www.uncjazzfest.com or call 970-351-2394 ~~ ARTIST BOIS ~~ THURZZ, APRIL 22ND ~~ Patti Austin with UNC Jazz Lab Band I ~~ Northern Colorado Voices She crosses all musical genres, has made 16 solo albums, and has performed her award-nominated hit songs on the Grammys and the Oscars. She is Patti Austin – whose extraordinary career continues to cross over boundaries and reach new heights. After making her debut at the Apollo Theater with Dinah Washington at the age of 4, she has gone on to win a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, record and perform with artists from Quincy Jones to Paul Simon to the WDR Big Band, and sang the duet “It’s Falling In Love” with Michael Jackson from his album Off The Wall. Ms. Austin will perform tributes to George Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald with the DownBeat Award Wining UNC Jazz Lab Band I, a presentation that Patti has also performed with the bands of Duke Ellington, John Clayton, and Count Basie ~~www.pattiaustin.com ~~ Northern Colorado Voices is the flagship ensemble of UNC’s award-winning Vocal Jazz Program and is following in the footsteps of DownBeat Award-winning groups Sus 4 and the Axidentals ~~ In addition, they were recently finalists in the Harmony Sweepstakes Competition ~~www.uncjazz.com  UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival Announces Artist Lineup ~~FRI APR 23RD ~~ The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra ~~ UNC Vanguard Combo Regarded as one of the premier big bands in the U.S., the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra was formed in 1985 by bassist/composer John Clayton, saxophonist Jeff Clayton, and drummer Jeff Hamilton together with an all-star lineup of Los Angeles-based musicians. The group’s debut recording, Groove Shop, was nominated for a Grammy award and was named one of the best recordings of 1990 by CD Review ~~ The high acclaim the Orchestra has received sparked an invitation to become the Ensemble-In-Residence of Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl from 1999-2001 ~~ www.johnclaytonjazz.com ~~www.hamiltonjazz.com ~~ The UNC Vanguard Combo is UNC’s top small jazz ensemble. Its members are all composers/arrangers, and most of the group’s repertoire consists of original compositions written specifically for the group. The group is carrying on a long-standing tradition of DownBeat Awardwinning UNC jazz ensembles~~ www.uncjazz.com ~~ SAT APRIL 24TH ~~ Woody Herman Tribute and Drum Summit featuring Jeff Hamilton,John Riley, Ed Soph, and more The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band Jeff Hamilton, John Riley, and Ed Soph are respected as some of the finest big band jazz drummers of this generation. Each with extensive individual credits and performances with artists from Stan Kenton to Keith Jarrett, all of these drummers were members of the famed Woody Herman Orchestra, known as one of the most exciting and significant big bands in jazz history. The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival will present a special tribute to the great Herman band with three of its finest alumni drummers and additional guest alumni ~~ www.hamiltonjazz.com~~www.johnriley.org ~~www.jazz.unt.edu/node/117 (Ed Soph) ~~ The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band is the festival’s professional  big band in residence. Comprised of some of the festival’s nationally respected artist/clinicians, theirrepertoire includes music by its members and will also feature the world premieres of five newly commissioned pieces.The Jazz Festival All-Star Big Band will be conducted by Gene Aitken, UNC professor emeritus and former Director of Jazz Studies ~~ www.uncjazzfest.com OR www.geneaitken.com OR Contact: Kevin Whalen kevin.whalen@unco.eduOR 970-351-2394 OR www.uncjazzfest.com OR Fax: 970-351-2536 ~~.

~~ SUN APRIL 25TH~~ Dale Bruning & Jude Hibler ~~ JLE’s First House Party – It’s About Time!  ~~ Virtuosic Guitarist Dale Bruning and Jazz Narrator/Historian Mzz. Jude Hibler  will be performing their1ST JLE The Great American Songbook House Party Concert in a home ~~ Jazz Host Family, Dea and Bob Brayden ~~ @ 11562 W. 28th Ave., Lakewood. in Lakewood ~~ We are calling it “It’s About Time!” – with the songs based on the theme, of course, of “time.” ~~ Joining them will be Bassist Mark Simon ~~ The $27 tickets (sales tax included) can be ordered from their website OR by calling our office at 303-776-1764~~ It’s About Time Concert Tickets ~~ Seating is limited – a maximum of 45 people – first come, first served ~~ For questions & FMI: call the JLE office at 303-776-1764 or email us ~~ at info@jazzlinkenterprises.com ~~ Jazz Link Enterprises is pleased to announce the release of its latest CD, The Dale Bruning Quintet: Classical Connections, Vol II ~~ Special guest is flutist Ali Ryerson with Jeff Jenkins, piano, Mark Simon, bass, and Paul Romaine, drums ~~ This CD represents the second show of a live concert we performed in November, 2006 in Denver, Colorado ~~ To hear samples and to purchase this CD for $15 follow this link: Classical Connections Vol II ~~ FFMI: Jazz Link Enterprises, 3721 Columbia Dr., Longmont, CO 80503 ~~ 303-776-1764 OR info@jazzlinkenterprises.comOR www.jazzlinkenterprises.com ~~.

~~ SUN APRIL  25TH ~~ THE NINTH + LINCOLN ORCHESTRA Under The Baton Of Maestro Tyler Gilmore @ at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO 80203 Hit Timezz: 7PM ~~ Tickets: TBA ~~ FMI: ~~ www.dazzlejazz.com or 303.839.5100. ~~ HitTime: 7PM. Please call 303.839.5100 and make a reservation! ~~ Check out Dazzle on Myspace!http://www.myspace.com/dazzlejazz ~~.

WED MAY 5TH ~~ Guitarist Pat Metheny & THE ORCHESTRION TOUR @ The Paramount Theater,1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80202 ~~ (303) 623 .0106 ~~ www.paramountdenver.com ~~

SAT MAY 22ND ~~ THE ANNUAL 5 POINTZZ JAZZ FESTIVAL ~~ Stay tuned for detailzz ~~ Mark your calendar!  Additional info soon at www.DenverGov.org/5PointsJazz ~~.

~~ SAT JUNE 12TH & SUN JUNE 13TH ~~  JazzFest DENVER 2010 @ City Hall Event Center ~~ Denver’s newest indoor/outdoor venue ~~ situated in the heart of the city at 1144 Broadway, Denver ~~ FMI:  http://www.coclubs.com ~~ Tickets on Sale online April 1, 2010 at www.jazzfestdenver.org ~~ Perspective line-up & HitTimezz (subject to change) ~~ SAT JUNE 12TH ~~ Karrin Allyson Quartet featurin’  Rod Fleeman, Eric Montzka, Larry Kohut ~~ The  East -West Trumpet Summit starrin’  Thomas Marriott, Ray Vega, Phil Sparks, Travis Shook, Matt Jorgensen ~~ Brad Goode Polytonal Dance Party starrin’ Jeff Jenkins, Ken Walker, Bill Kopper, Anthony Lee  SUN JUNE 13TH ~~ The  Bobby Watson Quartet starrin’  Orrin Evans(p), Curtis Lundy(b), & Eric Kennedy(d); followed by The Trio de Paz featurin’  Romero Lubambo(g), Nilson Matta(b), & Duduka da Fonseca(d) ~~

~~ FRI OCT 1ST, SAT OCT 2ND, & SUN OCT 3RD ~~The Summit Jazz Foundation Presentzz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band; The High Sierra Jazz Band; The Titan Hot Seven; The Alan frederickson Jazz Ensemble; The Ivory & Gold Trio PLUS Antti Sarpila(reeds), John Cocuzzi(vbs), Jeff Barnhart(p), Nicki Parrott(b), & Danny Coots(d) ~~ The Summit Jazz Foundation, P.O. Box 1150, Evergreen, CO 80437-1150 ~~ Phone: 303-670-8471 ~~ Fax: 360-379-8811 ~~ Email: info@summitjazz.org OR www.summitjazz.org ~~.

~~ UTNG (Until The Next Gig), dig, djSOS aka Peter L. Poses, Host of OverNight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” from ‘Round MidNight Thurzz. to 6AM Fri. on KRFC FT. COLLINS (CO), “Come Together On HomeGrown Community Radio” ~~ 88.9FM ~~ www.krfcfm.org~~ KRFC FT COLLINS, 619 S. College Ave., #4, Ft. Collins, CO 80524 ~~ 303.221.5075. Poses ~~pposes@rockymountainjazz.comorpposes@gmail.com ~~ is the Associate Editor of “The Rocky Mountain Jazz Beat”, contributin’ a weekly column, “The RMJB/SOS” (“The Soundz Of Surprize”) ~~ “The Rocky Mountain Jazz Beat” ~~www.rockymountainjazz.com ~~ is the Jazz.com for N. CO & The Front Range. Ned Radinsky, Publisher/Editor-In-Chief and Jazz Photographer. UTNG , dig, djSOS ~~ 303.851.7265.

~~ UTNG (Until The Next Gig), dig, djSOS aka Peter L. Poses, Host of OverNight Jazz: The Soundz Of Surprize” from ‘Round MidNight Thurzz. to 6AM Fri. on KRFC FT. COLLINS (CO), “Come Together On HomeGrown Community Radio” ~~ 88.9FM ~~ www.krfcfm.org~~ KRFC FT COLLINS, 619 S. College Ave., #4, Ft. Collins, CO 80524 ~~ 303.221.5075. Poses ~~pposes@rockymountainjazz.comorpposes@gmail.com ~~ is the Associate Editor of “The Rocky Mountain Jazz Beat”, contributin’ a weekly column, “The RMJB/SOS” (“The Soundz Of Surprize”) ~~ “The Rocky Mountain Jazz Beat” ~~www.rockymountainjazz.com ~~ is the Jazz.com for N. CO & The Front Range. Ned Radinsky, Publisher/Editor-In-Chief and Jazz Photographer. UTNG , dig, djSOS ~~ 303.851.7265.

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