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Denver music students find their groove in jazz

A weekly magazine show devoted to arts and culture stories from around Colorado and across the country. Produced and curated by Rocky Mountain PBS, “Arts District” spotlights an array of visual arts, performing arts, music and cultural events, with behind-the-scenes interviews with artists who may be well-known or whose creativity is just being discovered.

Denver music students find their groove in jazz

Season 5 Episode 523 | 26m 40s | CC

Jazz radio KUVO features monthly live broadcasts with high school and college jazz performers and we hear from a few of them, including the Denver School of the Arts jazz workshop orchestra, one of just 15 bands invited to compete in Essentially Ellington at NY’s Lincoln Center. ALSO: 60s pop artist Sister Mary Corita Kent; Chinese artist Xu Bing; cowboy poetry in Elko Nevada.

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