band and we do stuff all around town we do big events small events classes just check out swinging denver dot com for more information here's another song i wrote called up to special you know t whatever you want to call it now here's a good old good one we're going to let the guitarist over here to my left mr matt cantor my good friend call him good friend and guitarist you're the only he's going to lead us through this one if i had  here we go as a result of a song i wrote called this one that opened daily dedicated to the no name but we have a little tuesday night jam session up there will like to hang out and play some swing people are welcome to come and dance or not you know when you show up and have a little extra cash to the bartenders you know that sort of thing they like that going into blue ridge stand for denver's own blues jazz funk and soul television show and this show comes to you in the spirit of you know opening your guitar case and playing on the street corner when it's fifteen below zero you know take the music to the people that's all we're really trying to do and i really believe in the power of this music you know it saved my life and gives me a reason to get up in the morning and i know it could do that for a lot of people and it does that for a lot of people and i were very honored to introduce your band to us again if you would please sir yeah we have mr chris carlen on the drums over here mean you know my grandfather when he was growing up he grew up in a little town in kansas and well it was the swing around those days and he and his buddies got together and he played bass in a swing band and on top of that he traveled around with his family's thing in a little bit you know music kind of got away with them and the only thing he really started playing was records and tapes but he was doing that for me basically from day one i was listening to glen miller is bad and already and yeah all the good ones out there it sure rubbed off on you sure y why we're lucky we have those influences in our life and how did you come to meet these cats and have this band come together well matt and i went to high school together where'd you go to school we went to boulder high ok i guess met chris through a mutual friend played a lot of gigs with him he also does great video work flat nine design if anybody needs that he really does yeah i use that clip of of your band that they produce to put on the event you know you can put a little a picture really nice stuff but was that something rolling on blues yeah yeah yeah we might as well do that one and i you know yeah that's great man so you know when you were when you were young  your grandfather was your biggest musical influence did you start on the alto i actually my first instrument was the clarinet and well no it was the trumpet and then  i got braces and then switched went to reeds went to clarinet i had to teach myself in the back of the clarinet section in middle school but then you know i learned about more about jazz and that sort of thing and learned i should pick up the sax and then i got a real teacher who was your first teacher greg liberte of the boulder he's actually a neighbor of mine and walk to his house for lessons after school and he really drilled into me you know learn your skills learn your chords learn once a melody lives in harmony and you really and also man you sound like somebody from another time you know i don't mean to be too esoteric or crazy but i am and i love that old music you know and i believe that kind of thing you know maybe you played it before or something or i don't know we do well in the realm of spirits being musicians but  yeah it's really it's really i'm really glad to have you guys and if i could maybe talk to brianna a little bit about swing in denver let me get a microphone for you on that side perfect all right brianna you told us just briefly about swing in denver we have some great dancers here from swing in denver tonight we're so glad to have you guys bring so much fun and enthusiasm in dancing is so much a part of the music you know especially in this kind of music and if you would maybe tell us again about swing in denver and if you want to go a little more in depth about things too and if you would introduce the dancers to us oh sure so the big thing we have coming up i was going to talk about one of our events we are going to do what we call the speakeasy soiree it's a big event coming up january twentieth and you get more information out swinging number dot com but it's going to be at the hangar at the stanley marketplace and stapleton so definitely come out of that enjoy like making rhythms and dancing and kind of playing along with the band as we're dancing creating something together i think it makes it a lot more fun shirts awesome it's awesome so swing in denver i know kenny nelson is he the key figure  definitely is and so swing in denver you do events around talk about maybe some of the events you do around and people can come i know you already said this with your the soiree but so people can come to regular events and take lessons that kind of thing  yes we do weekly classes we do wednesday nights and thursday nights the venue information is available on our website but we also do a dance typically it's twice a month the first and third wednesday of every month we called the wednesday night hop and often we have bands about every six weeks or so jeremy money comes sometimes we have also a lot of local bands that come britney is also a singer her band sometimes plays for us you know hey it's great fun what your band brittany awesome but i got to check ya'll out no i'm serious really good hey we've got a tough crew over here so those events where are those happening at so we have a new venue i'm not exactly sure on all the details i'm not sure if it's been announced publicly yet also i am not sure what they are my thought can you make the leap when she says the name of the place you know i am i don't know enough information to tell you that right now so go to c n n dot com all the information is available there we're also instagram right social media ok why pre shared your time thanks for talking with us and let's see yeah you got it once again want to thank everybody for tuning into blue roots denver denver's own blues jazz funk insult television show we feature local live music and interviews with musicians and also dancing we do some events in the field at different venues but mostly we do them here it studio here at denver open media dinner open media is a great resource for people to grow and become producers or get into video editing take classes that kind of thing and i also want to thank our video production manager for blue routes denver television mr ed edward dean the third and second scuse me and he you know without his help and our crews help none of this would be possible and it really seems to be growing quickly into something and i just hope that we can really take the music to the people you james folks you know wouldn't be blue route and we didn't and when a blues tonight you know so why don't we play the song we're talking about kyle put together for us blues i wrote about trains rolling on blues wrong so that song a lot of the stuff we do is kind of in the swing in blues you know swing variety and you know other well here's a little song i wrote wrote this one for someone special who was dedicated to her and anyone else feeling a little sentimental war here's another good one is kind of a make this one kind of a quickstep once again good old good one called you took advantage of me and i kind of like to do you took advantage of me whoa nice night we're going to take it way up harlem way now song written by don redmond and duke ellington doing the new lowdown down looks like the next one on deck here's one of the old favorite song called melancholy baby am in love with you out there like me that is all right all right before we go too far with that one we're going to do the song about not be not not there never being any anyone else song about heartbreak and uniqueness really is a song called there will never be another from the year nine hundred forty two there will never be another you know here's an old favorite song by earl father hines rosetta rosetta know we just never know just how one of these things is go going to go but you know i don't i don't want to say it was bad because it wasn't you know s players you know he's a little weird but it's not funny to make fun of the guy who doesn't like it all right here's a song i wrote called it's finally here a little ballad too much really more than it more than you would expect and i'm sorry about ripping off the door handle matt i didn't mean to it brooke i meant like it's for watching let's do this one good old good one one of the old favorites died down diana diana died