Music
Jazz in threes
Joshua Redman is drawn to collaboration. For his entire career, the tenor saxophonist has surrounded himself with the best musicians in modern jazz, creating a true give-and-take on the bandstand and breaking out of the standard leader-accompanist mold. Redman, who ...
Deuces wild
In 2011, it’s not that uncommon for like-minded people to meet online and create a project together. It has become more prevalent, especially in hip-hop, for producers and vocalists to e-mail each other tracks and vocals for potential songs...
G-Love and Special Sauce learn to G-love their new album
Longtime Philadelphia band gets back to its roots Philadelphia’s G. Love and Special Sauce will be doing two consecutive nights at the Boulder Theater, Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12. But Sugar, the new studio album dropping April 22 that Love is in town ...
Love saves the day
The 1994 self-titled debut album from G. Love & Special Sauce was unique enough that it earned the group’s music a label — hip-hop...
Looking back to look ahead
Whether Eric Earley is writing about it or talking about it, any discussion of the music he makes for Blitzen Trapper presents an uneasy exercise. He states an answer then verbally erases it — a songwriter uncertain of how to objectively speak of his craft. Earley ...
A certain kind of kin
Fourteen years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band formed over a Guinness in a bar in Nederland, according to a tale spun by guitarist Adam Aijala. The members were young, recently relocated to Colorado and looking for musical companions...
A thriller comes to Colorado Music Festival
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF), makes Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle sound almost like a Hollywood horror movie...
Ukuleletrix Leigh Jones
Sunday, February 9: Leigh Jones. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628...
Meagan Chandler’s unusual muse
Meagan Chandler’s body is her instrument. Well, technically her voice is her instrument, but the vivacious singer draws her lyrics and one-of-a-kind music from bodily inspiration. Her voice, she says, “just happens to make noise...
