Posted: 05/29/2012
By John Wenzel
The Denver Post

Jerry Krantz, the longtime owner of landmark Denver jazz club El Chapultepec, died Tuesday morning. He was 77.

In its heyday, El Chapultepec welcomed music legends such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as visiting rock stars like Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger. Krantz’s insistence on free, live, straight-ahead jazz every night of the week helped the ‘Pec — as insiders affectionately call it — stand out on the corner of 20th and Market Streets.

Even President Bill Clinton played his tenor sax on stage there.
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The musicians of your Colorado Symphony Orchestra invite you to get involved! Buy tickets to this weekend’s AWESOME CoSO concerts. Do your part to celebrate Colorado’s world class symphony orchestra. Don’t wait! Make your weekend plans more exciting now!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!! After you’ve purchased tickets, made a text donation, and sent this message to your personal email contacts, be sure to write about it here on the event wall and send an email to altocleferrific@gmail.com to be entered in our special reward drawing. One lucky randomly selected CoSO supporter will win a live chamber music concert by up to 5 musicians in your home or for the charitable organization of your choice.

Purchase tickets to any or all of the three performances here:

Friday, 11/4 at 7:30pm

Saturday, 11/5 at 7:30pm

Sunday, 11/6 at 2:30pm

Get tickets for you and your family.

-Musicians of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Morrison, CO
Thu, Jul 12, 2012 07:30 PM
2012 will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Denver Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and also commemorates the 15th death anniversary of John Denver. The concert will simultaneously act as a benefit for the Komen Denver Affiliate, in which $2.00 for every ticket sold will be donated. Click here for pre-sale tickets!

Dance, dance and dance some more
Friday, April 15 at Moments Notice’s Club Roxy
Four Seasons Hotel : 1111 14th Street, Denver, 80202

7:30pm-midnight : Four Seasons Grand Ballroom : Jerry Barnett Orchestra

10:00pm : Four Seasons Ballroom Foyer : Club X, the next generation of Moments Notice bands

$30/ticket – $1 for each year of partying
To benefit the Denver Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for Cure
Click to purchase tickets at BlackTie.com
$25 certificate towards dinner for two at EDGE Restaurant
Special Four Seasons Hotel room rate – $165 per night – 303.389.3000

Casual party attire-no ties, tuxs or gowns : Fun only-no speeches
Cash bar : $10 discounted valet parking
For more information: 303.791.7792

Terri L. Fisher, President
5 Star Talent and Entertainment

Hard economic times provide the best reason for a company or organization to celebrate employees and volunteers who have worked hard all year under trying circumstances. Their efforts need to be recognized and rewarded.

Bands, small jazz ensembles, guitar players, comedians, jugglers, cultural talent, celebrity impersonators, living statues, handwriting analysts, caricaturists–even cooking demonstrations can be brought to you.
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Join the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Five Points community in celebrating the history, culture and MUSIC of the Five Points neighborhood during the 7th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival. This FREE event takes place on Saturday, May 22 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. along Welton Street in Historic Five Points. The festival has it all: 13 bands on 5 stages. Click here for complete details and the 2010 line-up.

The Colorado Chamber Orchestra is pleased to announce our 2010 Valentines Day Benefit Concert for the Capitol Hill Community Services Soup Kitchen raised $4000 for the soup kitchen at Trinity United Methodist Church. In addition, the concert was an artistic success and the musicians were paid. We are proud that not a dime of public or tax monies were used for this benefit concert. www.cochamberorchestra.com

I am looking for musicians or bands to play on our stage at the McDonald’s at 200 16th St. This is a newly built restaurant on the 16th St. Mall in Denver. VERY HIGH profile. I am looking for 11:30-1:30pm M-F and Fri/Sat. evenings from 5-7pm. Compensation is free food and your ability to sell any merch or CD’s.

Please help Local 72-147 fight Texas Ballet Theater’s canned music policy. Please click here and add your voice to those who oppose the company’s use of recordings – some made in China – to replace live orchestral accompaniment. In addition, please be advised that we will demonstrate our opposition to TBT’s Canned Nutcracker performances at 12 noon and 6pm Friday, November 27 outside the new $350 million AT&T Performing Arts Center.
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Background & History

AT&T Winspear’s rave acoustics host ballet with empty orchestra pit. Ballet silenced live music after two board representatives collected $700k.
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Orchestras Dumped after two Ballet Board Members got  $700K
Ballet is cheating patrons out of legit show, Kills musicians’ jobs to cover losses: Read More

After 114 years, the Potenza Lodge has canceled the appearance of the Denver Feast Band at the St. Rocco Feast. The event will take place August 14-15-16, at their hall and at Mt. Carmel Church. They blame a shortage of funds for the cancellation. This puts 28 musicians out of a job for that weekend.

In June, 2008, the artistic staff of a Fort Worth ballet company traveled to Shanghai, paid $30,000.00 to the government of China and killed the jobs of our members. Join with us March 27, 28 and 29 as we converge on Bass Hall in Downtown Fort Worth to protest one of the most deplorable acts ever staged in the history of classical ballet theater. Download Flyer

The DMA is proud to announce that former member, newsletter/website editor Ken Davies is the winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop National Trombone Composition. Ken’s Three Pieces for Bass Trombone and Piano, receives a world premier performance in a 3/21 recital by Chicago Symphony bass trombonist, Charlie Vernon, at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, one of America’s foremost trombone festivals, at Ft. Myer, VA.

Guest artists to include young virtuoso JOEL FAN, praised for his recent recital album World Keys, which reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Classical Chart, the exciting NYAHO/GARCIA DUO, Piano Wellness Seminar founder, SHEILA PAIGE, and Chinese-born pianist, HSING-AY HSU.. Metro State Piano Faculty Tamara Goldstein, Justin Adams, Steven Aguiló- Arbues, Peter Friesen, James Myers, Collette St. Clair, Nan Shannon, Mila Startsev, and April Travers.

From the blog: The Working Musician
By David J. Hahn
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that a lot of you reading this are musicians much like me – you grew up somewhere in the 80s or 90s, you were introduced to music at school or church, you had a few private teachers, you studied a little or a lot of music at college and now you’re out in the world as a professional musician – making recordings to sell online, playing gigs, teaching lessons and – clearly – reading blogs.

Why should somebody like us join the musicians’ union? Or more to the point – why do we bother to have a musicians’ union at all?

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MusicianWages.com is a website all about musicians. Not how to BE a musician, but how to MAKE A LIVING as a musician. There are plenty of resources about the music business, but this website is about the musician business–the actual people who create the music. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were nearly 170,000 musicians employed just in the United States between 2003 and 2005, and throughout the rest of the world there are many, many times that number.

If you are one of these musicians, this is your website.

Concerts & Jazz Guitar Workshops.
April 12th, the legendary guitarist Gene Bertoncini, hailed as “The Segovia of Jazz”
April 19h, Mel Bay recording artist Corey Christiansen, Modern jazz master guitarist.

Gene Bertoncini, the guitarist in Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show band during the Johnny Carson host-era, has worked with Lena Horne, Michael Moore, Zoot Sims, Buddy Rich, and Michel Legrand. Dale Bruning has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Moore, Jim Hall, and Erroll Garner, among others.

Completely genuine, born in America, appreciated worldwide, jazz is a beloved American art form that has contributed widely to cultural unity and understanding globally.

We do need your help this year! As you know we are redoing the Phipps Tennis Pavilion at 3300 Belcaro Drive in Denver.

Although a 15 hour negotiating session on December 14, 2007 yielded $1.25 million in concessions from musicians, the Jacksonville Symphony Association (JSA) and the Jacksonville Symphony Players’ Association (JSPA) were unable to craft a final agreement.

The SCFD today announced the selection of Marjorie (Peg) Long as its new Executive Director. She will assume the position on November 5. Ms. Long was selected from a field of 3 finalists. She is currently serving as Vice President of Public Policy and Communications for the Charter League of Public Schools. Peg Long succeeds Mary Ellen Williams, who left the SCFD Executive Director position on July 3rd.

Every year the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra produces a summer tour of free concerts that are open to the general public. These concerts are programmed to be fun for the entire family with light, classical favorites, popular jazz, and familiar pop selections. Upcoming August 17 & 18 concerts include music of Mozart, Grieg, Vivaldi, Duke Ellington, Lennon and McCartney and Cole Porter.

Doug Adams’ principal argument for a comprehensive overhaul of Boettcher Concert Hall is simple: It’s time. In the last decade or so, the city has built or expanded nearly all of its other important civic structures, from Invesco Field at Mile High and Denver International Airport to expansions of the Colorado Convention Center and Denver Art Museum… The symphony has agreed to increase its commitment of private funding to $30 million. The city’s proposed portion has been shaved to $60 million, with $20 million as part of a $70.9 section to refurbish public buildings and $40 million as part of a $70 million cultural facilities component.

Source: Denver Post. For the rest of this story go to: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6442103