The Dikeou Collection presents the seventeenth installment of the Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series on Friday, October 21, with a special live performance by local trio Herman Songster and Williams and a DJ set by Denver artist Chris Bagley to open and close the evening. This event is free and open to the public and will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, from 7-10pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
Herman Songster & Williams is a guitar, bass and drum trio playing contemporary takes on jazz and modern classics. The group consists of Jake Herman on drums, Bob Songster on bass and Brant Williams playing guitar.
Filmmaker, videographer and artist Chris Bagley melds light and color to produce dreamy visual scapes. Admiration for “Wesley Willis’s Joyrides”, a 2008 documentary film of revered Chicago cult musician, won co-director Bagley the Chicago International Film Festival’s prestigious Gold Hugo, launched him into the spotlight of Westword’s 100 Creative Artists, and onto the distinguished walls of the Clyfford Still Museum and RiNo’s Rule Gallery. His video work includes “Fringe Art of the Front Range” displayed at Denver International Airport, a Colorado Public Television short of Denver’s roadside attraction restaurant Casa Bonita, and disco ball refracted, colorful light infused music videos for underground rap group, Wheelchair Sport’s Camp.
The Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series focuses on jazz musicians living and working today, whose names are not yet embossed into history, but whose energy, wisdom, well worn instruments, and presence in the jazz scene are further defining our admiration for the life form, Jazz music. Selections from the vinyl archive will thus serve as a remembrance to all the jazz greats who came before the jazz musicians invited to play at this bi-monthly series.