After weeks of teasing a new location, Denver’s historic jazz club Dazzle Jazz has revealed its new digs.
The Capitol Hill club will soon move to 1512 Curtis Street, into a larger-capacity space in the Baur’s building downtown.
“I’m very excited for their expansion,” said Denver Post jazz writer Bret Saunders. “I think it’s about time that Denver had a larger venue for some of the greater artists in the world. A lot of artists that play Los Angeles and New York, one of their few stops will be Dazzle. For a one-nighter, this is going to be a bigger opportunity.”
The new location will put it a short walk away from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and right next door to Sam’s No. 3, in case you like your jazz with a side of hash browns.
The club will host a public grand opening at its 15th and Curtis location on June 1.
Founded in 1998, Dazzle has become a institution not only in Denver’s jazz scene, but the country’s, too. The club regularly touts its designation as one of DownBeat Magazine’s top 100 jazz clubs in the country. It packs in the talent to back that testimonial up, routinely booking vaunted players new and old like the Grammy Award-winning Esperanza Spalding and guitar legend Jim Hall.
With its new tenant, the space at 1512 Curtis St. has changed hands three times in the last six years. In August 2011, Le Grand Bistro took over the space after Baur’s Ristorante shuttered earlier that year. It became Baur’s Listening Lounge in 2015, which went dark in March.
Don’t fret: You still have time to pay homage to the club’s Capitol Hill home. According to a release, Dazzle Jazz will remain open at 930 Lincoln St. until May 21, when it will host its final show, an evening with Tyler Gilmore — Dazzle’s original music director — and the Ninth and Lincoln Big Band. Check out the club’s full schedule .
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