Critic's Notebook

Denver-based singer and composer Erica Papillion-Posey tags social-media posts with “Think higher, resonate higher, vibrate higher, create higher.”

Although the SFJazz Collective’s members have changed since it was founded in 2004, the group has consistently included some of the world’s most accomplished musicians, starting with heavyweights like Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton and Bobby Hutcherson.

Phoenix-based indie-pop artist r.ariel is always searching for authenticity.

The James Carter Organ Trio will be at Dazzle March 31 and April 1.

The singer of My Brightest Diamond discusses why her new album is so different from her previous orchestral rock albums.

Renowned jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley has recorded albums with her own big band and arranged and written music for Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, so it’s not surprising when she performs with her trio, which includes bassist Steve Swallow and saxophonist Andy Sheppard, she approaches the music like a big band.

In high school, bassist Jean-Luc Davis listened to ‘90s alt-rock bands like Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden at the same time he was getting into jazz. So, when he was tapped to do a two-month residency at Noctune in mid-2017, he decided to meld the two genres, putting jazz spins on some of his favorite ‘90s songs.

Rapper AP is charging steep prices for an album listening party.

Guitar wizard Dick Dale, one of the innovators the surf-rock sound back in the ’60s, died on Saturday night, at age 81.

About two years ago, guitarist David Torn, saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Ches Smith were playing a gig at the Vortex Jazz Club in London.

A heavy beat pulsates through the room. By sheer reflex, your body starts to respond, head bobbing, hips and feet moving to the groove. It’s the unmistakable allure of soul music.

Breaking out of Denver can be tough for local bands, but the metal quartet Khemmis has been doing just that.

At 23 years old, Melz Staccz, born Melanie Fox-Siler, wants to be known as the top female rapper in Colorado.

While other rappers throw Benjamins into the air and wax their Ferraris, MC and B-boy Mike Wird waxes about the virtues of healthy living and eco-friendly shelters known as earthships.

The band Plastic Daggers, a noise and punk-rock duo, has been rattling Denver venues since 2015.

Meet Colorado’s hip-hop mom, Bea “Shep” Shepard, who has been cooking for rappers since the ’90s.

Francois Baptiste and 3Deep helped Colorado’s hip-hop scene blow up in the ’90s in Boulder; he’s still helping the culture grow.

On March 1, Lost Lake Lounge will bring country back to East Colfax.

A dozen years before Wei Wu shared a Grammy win Sunday night as part of the cast of Mason Bates’s opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, the Beijing-born opera singer’s first experience in America was as an understudy with Central City Opera.

The members of Sixty Minute Men spend a fair amount of time punching the clock, though their music allows them to slip away from the grind.

Frontwoman Teresa Suárez Cosío is willing to take on anything you throw at her.

The Blackouts played their awkward first concert at Tooey’s.