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By the beginning of the millennium, the divas of the jazz world had passed, leaving a new generation of singers to carry on. One of the most significant jazz vocalists to fill the void was Dianne [...]

He never attained eminence in America. Even in Colorado, where he was born and raised, he was a virtual unknown. But in the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc countries, Dean Reed was bigger [...]

On the Fourth of July in 1870, at a “Champagne March” to the expanse of ruddy sandstone monoliths, Judge Martin Van Buren Luther delivered a patriotic address, christening it as the Garden of the [...]

With a modern harmonic sound and imaginative arrangements, Rare Silk emerged as a Grammy-nominated jazz vocal group in the early 1980s.

The Rainy Daze had one of the biggest Colorado-based hits of the 1960s—"That Acapulco Gold,” an ode to marijuana crooned in Roaring Twenties vaudeville style.

An Iowa native, Chuck Pyle made his way to Colorado’s Front Range in 1965, “when Boulder was mostly gravel streets.” His path as an accomplished songwriter was set in 1975 when Jerry Jeff Walker [...]

When the world of popular music became just a mouse-click away, Colorado’s Pretty Lights—the creation of Derek Vincent Smith—built a following by offering his music for free.

Rusty Young got his musical start in Böenzee Cryque, a Denver-based band whose odd moniker was inspired, perhaps apocryphally, by the local business sign on an appliance store. Getting local [...]

Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, the Comedy Central television network’s controversial and wildly successful animated sitcom, became infamous for lampooning a wide [...]