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Poncho Sanchez at Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado
by Geoff Anderson
Poncho Sanchez Denver Botanic Gardens Denver, Colorado August 24, 2009 Poncho Sanchez is the state of the art in Latin Jazz these days. Since the passing of Tito Puente in 2000, Sanchez has ascended to the top of the list of active players in terms of popularity, exuberance and the ...
Mountainside Mardi Gras in Denver, Colorado
by Geoff Anderson
Mountainside Mardi Gras Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, Colorado August 8, 2009 A good-sized chunk of the New Orleans music scene landed at Red Rocks Saturday for an 11-hour funk and Dixieland marathon. Eight different bands and dozens of musicians left their sea level, horizontal environment to play a mile ...
Roberta Gambarini at Dazzle's in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
Roberta Gambarini Dazzle Nightclub Denver, Colorado June 19, 2009The really great ones make it sound easy: like walking down the street, nothing to it. That applies to instrumentalists as well as singers. Vocalist Roberta Gambarini unequivocally falls into that category. Friday night at Dazzle, Gambarini showed why she's ...
Gil Scott-Heron at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
Gil Scott-Heron Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom Denver, CO May 1, 2009 Politics has always been just as important to Gil Scott-Heron as his music. Perhaps more so. From the late 1960s into the 90s Scott-Heron preached the message of change; questioning the status quo; sticking up for the oppressed. Therefore ...
Coco Montoya and Debbie Davies at Toad's, Denver CO
by Geoff Anderson
Coco Montoya, Debbie Davies The Toad Tavern Denver, Colorado April 1, 2009 The blues is something you either get, or you don't. To those that don't get it, it's just the same old chord progression running round and round like a NASCAR race. Some complain that the blues is ...
Five Peace Band
by Geoff Anderson
Five Peace Band Paramount Theatre Denver, CO March 25, 2009 The reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin—together for the first substantial time since their days with Miles Davis recording In a Silent Way(Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew—may be the most obvious feature of their new collaboration, Five Peace Band; ...
Porter Batiste Stoltz at Owsley's Golden Road in Denver, CO
by Geoff Anderson
Porter Batiste Stoltz with Kyle Hollingsworth Owsley's Golden Road Denver, Colorado March 17, 2009 It was another funk marathon Tuesday night in Denver as Porter, Batiste, Stoltz got their New Orleans groove on for St. Patrick's Day. This isn't a 90-minute-set-and-gone band; how about two 90 minute sets? Actually, ...
Greyboy Allstars and Dirty Dozen Brass Band in Denver, Colorado
by Geoff Anderson
Greyboy Allstars/Dirty Dozen Brass Band Ogden Theater Denver, Colorado February 21, 2009 The show was billed as a “Mardi Gras Celebration." It was still a few days before Fat Tuesday, and Denver is a few miles from New Orleans, but what the heck? Close enough. With both the Dirty ...
North Mississippi Allstars in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
North Mississippi Allstars Bluebird Theater Denver, Colorado January 31, 2009 It's just as well that the Bluebird Theater doesn't have any seats. When the North Mississippi Allstars play, no one would be sitting anyway. Their shows are basically a non-stop two-hour boogie fest. They play “country blues" that has ...
Rene Marie
by Geoff Anderson
René MarieNovember 1, 2008 (First Set)Dazzle NightclubDenver René Marie is a jazz singer, and one of the better ones in the business these days. She performs the standards and often does so in a straight ahead, straightforward but still unique manner. She's not content to exclusively reinterpret the jazz ...
