Jazz program returns to Vail-area schools (The Vail Trail)

VAIL, Colorado - Jazz Goes to School, the Vail Jazz Foundation’s jazz education program for fourth- and fifth-graders, returns to Eagle County schools starting Monday.

Christmas concert benefits Vail Valley Salvation Army (Vail Daily)

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - When Cathy Dockery settles into the pew at the Beaver Creek Chapel for the annual holiday concert in Colorado’s Vail Valley, she takes a deep breath and focuses her mind on the “true meaning of Christmas,” she said. For her, and many others like her, the concert that singer Pat Hamilton and pianist Peter Vavra put on a few days before Christmas each year has become an …

Steamboat trumpet player receives All-State jazz honor (The Steamboat Pilot & Today)

At the Colorado Music Educators Association Con­vention during the last weekend of January, Steamboat Springs High School student Mike Makens will be one of five trumpet players to perform in Colorado’s 2010 Small School Jazz Band.

B eginning: Colorado River Concert Association 2009-2010 season (Colorado River Weekender)

A new season for the Colorado River Concert Association begins Oct. 13 with a concert by an unlikely trio of musicians.

Custom painted cruiser bike up for raffle to benefit Summer of Jazz (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Summer of Jazz co-founder Mary Noone has come up with another new way to support the concert series, and showcase her artwork at the same time.

Pianist Marc Cary sets his Focus on Glenwood’s Summer of Jazz (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Marc Cary’s agile fingers quickly landed him in Grammy-nominated company playing keys with other notable jazz musicians after he graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at age 21.

Free Boulder Acoustic Society concert at Shippen Manor in Oxford (The Warren Reporter)

Shippen Manor’s free concert series continues July 19 with a performance by Boulder Acoustic Society. OXFORD — From Colorado, the Boulder Acoustic Society is a four-piece band with a new take on American Roots Music

Glenwood Springs’ Summer of Jazz features a local for the first time (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Ashton Taufer got an early appreciation for jazz music growing up in Glenwood Springs and going to the Summer of Jazz concerts with his family.

African-born Lionel Loueke next up in Glenwood Springs’ Summer of Jazz (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Lionel Loueke brings his unique combination of jazz guitar and African roots influences to the Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz stage in Two Rivers Park tonight.

Get out those dancin’ shoes for Breakestra at Glenwood Springs’ Summer of Jazz (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — The Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz welcomes Los Angeles-based Breakestra for the second in the summer concert series, tonight beginning at 7 p.m. in Two Rivers Park.