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Kilo Bravo for BigTakeover.com) and a musician (playing guitar for The Silent Comedy). Most of the time, he’s working for someone else but in 2019, Lekas released his first book of poetry, Saturday Night Sage, featuring cover art by poster artist and painter Alan Forbes who has also done work for The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Mudhoney, Faith No More. Interested in seeing how these poems would jump off the page, Lekas recorded five poems as spoken word tracks, sharing them with musician friends from Howlin Rain, Mrs. Henry and The Silent Comedy and asking them to write and record ...

Curtis Fuller, one of the most influential trombonists in jazz whose career spanned nearly 70 years, has died. He was 88.

From left, trumpet player Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller and bassist Reggie Workman, on stage at Town Hall in New York on Feb. 22, 1985. Trombonist and composer Curtis Fuller, a pivotal figure on his instrument since the '50s and a beloved mentor, passed away May 8. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Mary Fuller, and by the Jazz Foundation of America. "His sound was massive, striking and immediate, a waveform that was calibrated to overload the senses and saturate the magnetic tape that captured it," says trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik. "In ...

Trombonist Curtis Fuller—RIP, Aged 86 Share The late Curtis Fuller had several connections to Denver and Colorado. Mr. Fuller visited KUVO Jazz several times and played in our former Phyllis A. Greer Performance Studio at our previous Five Points Media Center location. Curtis recorded with Colorado’s own Capri Records, 2 albums as a leader and another one as an accompanist for Keith Oxman, he also recorded a CD with Boulder’s Brad Goode. In Addition to his recordings, Curtis Fuller played at Dazzle and over his long career appeared at several of the summer jazz festivals throu...

May 8, 2021 Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In the recent Washington Post poll to choose the greatest fictional detectives of all time, the top four vote-getters, tallied in descending order, were Armand Gamache, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Bosch and Hercule Poirot. Pfui, as Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe would say. Faced with a mind-boggling murder, would anyone turn to Louise Penny’s Gamache instead of Sherlock Holmes or to Michael Connelly’s Bosch over Hercule Poirot? I certainly wouldn’t. What the poll actually reveals is the tyranny of the contemporary. The results reflect the influence...