Black Viiolet With Wheelchair Sports Camp at Dazzle Jazz Club

Black Viiolet"BLACK VIIOLET is the new solo project of garage-rock maven Nicole Laurenne (The Darts (US), The Love Me Nots). Departing from her gritty rock world, Nicole - a classically-trained pianist who has also dabbled professionally in jazz - now ventures into uncharted territory: smoky, breathy vocals cooing over a mesmerizing blend of neo-soul, jazz, hip hop beats, spy-movie scores, vintage torch songs, and lounge. The meticulous production showcases Nicole’s prolific versatility as an artist, songwriter and producer, with attention to every detail in the arrangements and beats, top-tier musicians from two continents contributing real horns, upright bass, and drums, and six different music producers working together across an ocean...

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Black Viiolet"BLACK VIIOLET is the new solo project of garage-rock maven Nicole Laurenne (The Darts (US), The Love Me Nots). Departing from her gritty rock world, Nicole - a classically-trained pianist who has also dabbled professionally in jazz - now ventures into uncharted territory: smoky, breathy vocals cooing over a mesmerizing blend of neo-soul, jazz, hip hop beats, spy-movie scores, vintage torch songs, and lounge. The meticulous production showcases Nicole’s prolific versatility as an artist, songwriter and producer, with attention to every detail in the arrangements and beats, top-tier musicians from two continents contributing real horns, upright bass, and drums, and six different music producers working together across an ocean. The result? An undeniably cool, seductive, cinematic allure that sparkles with innovative pop vision, musical acumen, and a wide, cross-genre appeal."- Reprobate MediaWheelchair Sports CampDenver's biggest smallest band.Combining humor, playfulness, middle fingers, and an undeniable love for the groove, Wheelchair Sports Camp is certainly not your average hip-hop act. Fronted by Kalyn Rose Heffernan - a wheelchair using, profanely queer and tiny rapper, with a very distinctly high pitched sense of humor. The noisey experiment was birthed by the DIY, combining beats with shredding face live. Playing shows in every place they could, the band has since stretched into theatre, performance art, public television, politics, prison tours, permanent installations, film, and who knows what's next...."You can't really pin Kalyn's beats and collaborators to a specific era or subgenre of hip-hop, and she always switches up her configuration and presentation and methodology while making the music happen in consistently fascinating ways." - Tom Murphy from the Westword

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