Denver's Rossonian Hotel, a Haven for Jazz Greats

Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Nat King Cole once played at this hotel's jazz club. Only their ghosts remain. Today the Rossonian sits silently near 27th and Welton in Denver's nearly forgotten Five Points neighborhood while Light Rail trains occasionally rumble past. But listen carefully as you walk by. You just might hear a saxophone, a piano or a melancholy voice.

"At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night." - Jack Kerouac, On The Road

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