The idea was for Timbaland to warm up the crowd, but the super-producer’s hour-and-a-half set on Friday night at Denver’s packed Ogden Theatre was so boisterous, intimate, funky and funny that the ...

Oh, and the music? That was as impressive as expected, starting with a wicked cut that flipped a sample of Nina Simone’s classic “Sinnerman” so that Simone seemed to be crying out, “Oh, Timbaland!” ...