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Presented by Denver Arts & Venues, the Five Points Jazz Festival is a free, all-day event held annually in Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood. Once known as the Harlem of the West, Five Points was home to several jazz clubs which played host to many of jazz music's legends, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many more!
Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Oakland: 5 Colorado. Dazzle (Denver Performing Arts Complex), Denver: 5 Connecticut. Firehouse 12, New Haven: 2 The Side Door Jazz Club, Old Lyme: 2 District of Columbia. Blues Alley, Georgetown, Washington: 3 Bohemian Caverns, U Street, Washington
From the 1920s-50s, Welton Street in Five Points was home to over fifty bars and clubs, where some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and others performed.
Denver Coliseum. / 39.7791279; -104.9707305. Denver Coliseum is an indoor arena, owned by the City and County of Denver, operated by its Denver Arts & Venues and located in Denver, Colorado. The arena has a capacity of 10,200 people and was built from 1949 to 1951. The coliseum is located in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood.
KUVO (89.3 MHz) is a non-profit FM radio station broadcasting mainly jazz music in a public radio format. Licensed to Denver, Colorado, KUVO is owned by Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc. KUVO's mission is to "provide distinctive music, news and informational programming reflecting the values and cultural diversity of their listener community."
Jazz club. A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or promotion of jazz-music. [1] Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of ...
Instrument (s) piano, flute, alto sax, clarinet, bass, bassoon, tenor sax, vibraphone, percussion. Years active. 1954. ( 1954) –1958. ( 1958) The Australian Jazz Quartet (AJQ), also known as the Australian Jazz Quintet, was a jazz group active in the 1950s, best known for collaborations with Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Carmen McRae .
The Cellar Door was a 163-seat music club located at 34th & M Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. from 1964 through January 7, 1982. It occupied the location of a former music club called The Shadows.
All About Jazz columnist Michael J. Williams wrote about an altercation with Charles Mingus and pianist Don Pullen in the early 1970s, "One of the wonderful things about live jazz in clubs, and that goes for Gilly's, is the ever-present possibility of the unexpected". In addition to jazz, Gilly's hosted a tribute show to David Bowie.
Comedy Works is a stand-up comedy club with two locations in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. The downtown club opened in September 1981 and is located in Larimer Square in Denver. The south club, which opened September 2008, is part of The Landmark development in Greenwood Village .