jazz club and supper club · $$ · since 1997
Dazzle
Denver's serious jazz room, now at the foot of the Arts Complex.
Dazzle has been the city's main jazz club since 1997, first on Lincoln, then in the Baur's building on Curtis, and since 2023 in a purpose-built room at 1080 14th Street on the edge of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. It books touring names and the local players who make Denver's scene bigger than people expect, often two sets a night, with a full dinner menu served at the tables. DownBeat has listed it among the world's great jazz venues more than once. It is a ten-minute walk up 14th from Larimer Square.
Why go. Real jazz, most nights, with dinner, a short walk from LoDo.
The late set is cheaper and looser; the early set is where the touring headliners play their full book.
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