Dazzle celebrates its 1st year at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with four shows on July 31st & August 1st, 7 & 9:30PM*.
Derrick has complete creative control over these shows (as does every artist at Dazzle), but expect jazz, RnB, blues, fusion, and maybe even some gospel.
*$10 Flash Sale on late shows (9:30PM) on July 30, 2024.
Matt Ruff, Owner and Operations Manager, says, “the process to get to the Arts Complex was long and arduous, but I felt this was the correct move for Dazzle. One year at this location has given me proof that we are finally home.”
Owner Chad Schneider believes that, “there is no cooler jazz club anywhere and it’s such an honor to be entrusted by the people of Colorado to continue this legacy. I want the best jazz in the world brought to Dazzle. We are succeeding wildly!”
YOU Get the Presents
Instead of Dazzle receiving presents for its birthday, show attendees get the presents. Drawings will be held before each show to win presents. Everyone who comes to the shows gets a ticket and is entered in the drawing.
🎂 All Presents Given Away at ALL Four Shows 🎂
🎁 A pair of tickets to any touring show at Dazzle (available seats only)
🎁 A pair of tickets to any local show at Dazzle (available seats only)
🎁 A signed print of Dazzle by photographer Mark Payler
🎁 Official Dazzle water bottles
🎁 A cocktail created for and named after YOU by master mixologist Westin Elliot and it will be on the Dazzle menu for a month
🎁Community Partner Gifts (one will be given away each night) from: Swallow Hill, Colorado Symphony, and The Renaissance Hotel.
🎁Admission for two to Dazzle Brunch because Dazzle is bringing back the bottomless brunch for our birthday, starting Aug. 4!
🎁 And more!
The best 🎁 of all is Derrick Hodge. Derrick performed at the soft opening for Sponsors, Friends, and Family before Dazzle opened to the public last year. This year, he puts together ‘The Dazzle Sessions,’ with fellow Denver based musicians:
Derrick Hodge – bass
Aaron Daniels – keyboards
Solomon Chapman – piano
Matt Campbell – drums
Derrick Hodge
Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists.
Two time GRAMMY Award Winner for: Best Traditional R&B Performance 2014 – Jesus Children & Best R&B Album 2012 – Black Radio (with Robert Glasper)
Also lauded as a composer, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013), The Second (2016), and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike.
His albums are rich, raw and revelatory, reflecting his roots in the church, a passion for hip hop, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist, Hodge’s music contains multitudes.
Hodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts.
In 2022, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony.