Born May 25, 1877 in Philadelphia, Billy Murray and his family moved five years later to Denver, where he spent most of his early years expressing an interest in show business.
Michael Murphey was one of the cornerstones of Austin’s so-called “cosmic cowboy” scene. In 1972, the Dallas native had “Geronimo’s Cadillac” scrape into the Top 40.
Ragtime virtuoso Max Morath was born in Colorado Springs on October 1, 1926. His mother had lugged a piano bench full of music west from the family farm in Iowa; as a youngster, he said, he’d [...]
For most of the 1970s, Katy Moffatt was a fixture in the Denver folk music scene, playing clubs and small rock venues and spending countless hours at musicians’ haunts like the Denver Folklore Center.
A master cornetist, Ron Miles uses jazz as a starting point for his original voice, but he has helped elevate every style with which he’s involved, from funk to sophisticated big-band charts to [...]
The barriers to entry in the music business proved insurmountable to Meese’s career progression, but the Denver-based quartet’s melodic brand of pop-rock was widely admired in the local scene.