Nick Spreigl and Jared Atol are looking to make jazz more accessible in the digital age with their new Denver record label, (R)evolve.
By Sam DeLeo | December 1st, 2014Three enemies of art include sentimentality, instead of emotional rawness, academicism in trade of creativity, and pretentiousness where accessibility should be the end. Unfortunately for the art form of jazz, it’s carried too many of these kinds of enemies with it into the 21st century. Two creators of a new Denver record label want to do their part to change this.
“Jazz is not an outdated form of music,” said Nick Spreigl, drummer for Denver hip-hop act Air Dubai and partner with musician Jared Atol of the new (R)evolve label. “It’s constantly evolving, and it will continue to evolve if we let it. But that won’t happen without changing how it’s presented to people.”
Starting a jazz label in Denver — anywhere, for that matter — is no task for the timid. Spreigl and Atol, two jazz-trained musicians who met at the University of Northern Colorado, are not naïve about the challenges they face. But they’re not intimidated by them, either.
“We’re passionate about these issues,” Atol said. “We don’t like what’s happening and want to be part of part of a solution, not part of a status quo languishing toward oblivion.”
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