Chuck Denison: Music & Performance

Chuck Denison: Big Sky Entertainer of the Year !!

Chuck was just voted the best apres ski entertainer/band in Big Sky for 2008 by the Big Sky Weekly Newspaper poll !!!

As a musician Chuck Denison specializes in beautiful solo jazz guitar. With the Sam Gibson Trio he played the Indy Jazz Fest and numerous other venues. He plays restaurants, clubs and other functions and enjoys playing cocktail jazz piano styled interpretations of jazz standards. He also sings and plays country/folk/popular classics in a variety of settings. His voice has been compared to Pavrotti's garbage disposal, Kris Kristofferson using a chain saw, or even Tom Waits trying to sing, but he bravely sings Elvis or Johnny Cash, the Beatles and Jazz Classics. And his guitar, of course, really is good!

His Music

The Great American Songbook: Stories of the Standards

THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: The Stories Behind the Standards tells the stories of our most popular songs with humor, drama and insight. This is timeless music written in unique ways that is constantly being reinterpreted by each generation. Isaac Stern made this distinction between talent and genius: "A person possesses talent; genius possesses the person." This is a book about singers, musicians, lyricists and composers taking their talent into the atmosphere of immortality. They are fascinating, and they set the standards by which popular music is measured. They may not have lived easy lives, but their creativity drove them to new heights and they changed the face of American music forever.

$11.95

Tidings of Comfort & Joy

Chuck's Christmas CD is s surprisingly enjoyable blend of styles in a peaceful tribute to the great music of Christmas. Comfort and Joy reflects his love for guitar and Christmas – solo and duet fingerstyle and jazz guitar arrangements of traditional songs and carols.

$11.95

Romantic Jazz GuitarSamples:

My Romance

Georgia On My Mind

Singer/SongwriterSamples:

Wayfarin

Two Blue Cowboys

Tidings of Comfort and JoySamples:

It Came Upon the Midgnight Clear

White Christmas

Jingle Bells

Teaching

Chuck maintains an active teaching program through his studio in Big Sky. Weekly lesson begin at $20.00 for a half hour. Visiting players may want an intensive 1 ½ hour lesson for $50.00. For more information Contact Chuck

Schedule and booking

Chuck can be seen Tuesday evenings at the Carabiner Lounge, Saturdays in the Big Sky Summit Resort l winter. Summer he plays at the 320 Rnch, Lone Peak Brewery and other functions. . For more information Contact Chuck

Coming Soon

Soon you will be able to order Chuck’s new Fingerstyle Guitar CD: Faith, Hope and Love Fingerstyle.

Thanks to Lauren Brown Photography for the pictures -- www.laurenbrownphoto.com