Fall Touring Shows Lineup
Dazzle is proud to announce the amazing lineup for our Fall Touring Shows. These great artists are coming to Denver and only Dazzle members get first access to presale tickets! Pre-sale access to these shows will be available starting April 17 – May 3 for our Members. See chart for dates. Membership details and how to purchase can be found here: https://www.dazzledenver.com/dazzle-membership-packages/
säje
Thursday, August 15, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 17 – 19
This GRAMMY® nominated vocal supergroup, säje (rhymes with “beige”), is the brainchild of vocalist/composers Sara Gazarek, Amanda Taylor, Johnaye Kendrick, and Erin Bentlage. Winners of the Jazz Journalists Association Award Nomination for “Best Vocal Jazz Group”. The union of säje is rooted in the tradition of joy, curiosity, lush harmony, heart-felt expression, and profound sisterhood.
Fred Wesley & The New JBs
Wed. and Thur., August 28 & 29th, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 29 – May 1
Legendary bandleader, trombonist and author Fred Wesley is one of the forefathers of funk, still setting the standard with his jazz-funk band The New JBs. Together at its core for more than 30 years, the band is a living celebration of roots funk and more, performing such hits as “Pass the Peas” made with James Brown and the JBs including Maceo Parker, as well as selections from the P-Funk years and Fred’s own and others’ soulful jazz, funk and blues compositions.
Garaj Mahal
Fri. and Sat., Sept 6 & 7th, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 21 – 23
Innovative fusion of funky jazz with a tasty world music flare. Featuring guitar and sitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and world-renowned bass master and educator Kai Eckhardt, Garaj Mahal combines a century of musical experience to create a sound that’s always new, freshly infused with a wide spectrum of musical expression, and always smoking hot.
Johnny Rawls
Sun., Sept 15th, 6:30PM
Pre-sale April 21 – 23
Johnny Rawls is a soul blues legend. In fact, the term “soul blues” was invented to describe his music. With a career spanning more than 50 years, he’s done it all. Blues Music Awards, Blues Blast Awards, Living Blues Awards, and the W.C. Handy Awards have all acknowledged Johnny with multiple awards and nominations, including Soul Blues Album of the Year and Soul Blues Artist of the Year. Living Blues Magazine described him as a “soul-blues renaissance man” when he was featured on the cover in 2002.
Jazzmeia Horn
Thur. and Fri., Sept 19 & 20th, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 23 – 25
Named by her jazz-loving grandmother, Ms. Horn won the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition and, shortly after, was signed by Concord Records. In 2017, she released her debut album, A Social Call, which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Ms. Horn continues to tour nationally and internationally, honing her vocal, performance and writing skills, to get across her message about the global need for love and social change in the world.
Russell Malone
Sun., September 22, 4:30 & 7PM &
Mon., September 23rd, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 25 – 27
Russell Malone is one of the signature guitar players of his generation. The leader of ten albums since 1992, Malone is as well-known on the international circuit for helming a world-class quartet and trio as he is for his long-standing participation in Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio, and his recent consequential contribution to the musical production of the likes of Sonny Rollins and Dianne Reeves, who recruited Malone for his singular tone, refined listening skills, limitless chops, and efflorescent imagination.
Kris Davis Trio
Tues., Oct 8, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 27 – 29
Kris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz [in New York] on a given night.” She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. In 2019, Kris Davis’ “Diatom Ribbons” was named jazz album of the year by both the New York Times and the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. The album draws from the musical worlds of free improvisation, spoken word, electronica, mainstream jazz, R&B and rock.
Morgan James
Wed., Oct 9, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale April 19 – 21
“A phenomenal talent whose feel for classic soul music is bone deep…This woman is on fire.” — The New York Times.
Morgan James is a Juilliard trained singer, songwriter, actress and recording artist in New York City. Morgan is currently on tour supporting her fifth studio album, “Nobody’s Fool”. Huffington Post called MJ the “Brightest Breakout Artist of the Year” for her album “Reckless Abandon”. In addition to her original music, she has performed on Broadway, with Postmodern Jukebox, and has taken on full album covers of the Beatles’ iconic ‘White Album’, Joni Mitchell’s “Blue”, Jeff Buckley’s “Grace”, and many more.
Kassa Overall
Thur., Oct 24, 6:30 & 9PM
Pre-sale May 1 – 3
Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. His Warp Records debut, ANIMALS pushes Kassa’s message further, the title a loaded metaphor for the paradoxes of his life as an entertainer and as a black man in America.
