Living Legend Louis Bellson Makes Musical History at the Historic Fox Theater; Fox Festival 2000 ... Millennium Legends Bring in the New Year at Redwood City.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- Jazz drummer legend Louis Bellson will perform with an all star orchestra of jazz greats on New Year's Eve at Redwood City's historic Fox Theater. In an extraordinary gathering of jazz musicians This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles. Some of the most notable jazz musicians
Add gourmet food, free flowing champagne, all night dancing to great music bands, the historic grandeur of the Fox Theater, and you have the ingredients for a real millennium celebration, Fox Festival 2000. Fox Festival 2000 will feature an all star, all night line up. The featured headliner Louis Bellson pioneered the double bass drum and played for years with such greats as Duke Ellington, who called him the "world's greatest musician and drummer," Count Basie, Benny Goodman Noun 1. Benny Goodman - United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) Benjamin David Goodman, Goodman, King of Swing , Tommy Dorsey, Harry James Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was a popular United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus. , Ella Fitzgerald Noun 1. Ella Fitzgerald - United States scat singer (1917-1996) Fitzgerald , Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Louie Armstrong, James Brown, Tony Bennett and his late wife, Pearl Bailey. Combine the dazzle of Bellson's drumming and the hip virtuosity of vocalist Madeline Eastman and seasoned singer Jamie Davis with an all star orchestra conducted by world-class/trumpeter Fred Berry and you will hear jamming out of this century. You will witness the combination of big band jazz musicians like trumpeters This article lists notable musicians who have played the trumpet, cornet or flugelhorn. Classical players
This musical millennia will also feature rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. artist Lydia Pense and her band Cold Blood, and 50s Rock and Roll artist Dave Crimmen and his band. Lydia Pense makes Janis Joplin look pale and her band has a brass section that will make the walls of our twentieth century tumble into the next. They play the standards from James Brown's "Cold Sweat cold sweat n. A reaction to nervousness, fear, pain, or shock, characterized by simultaneous perspiration and chill and cold moist skin. " to new material of blues and rock, like "Tell Mama" and keep you on your feet. Add the rockabilly world of Dave Crimmen to this performance line-up and you have live musical history. Dave Crimmen sounds like a 2lst century next generation of Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Sun Records recording artists, with an edge and technique that's all his own. Who's Behind This Extraordinary Line-up and Celebration? "We are thrilled to host this event because it brings these legendary artists together to perform at our historic theater and city. This enterprise is our dream, the FOX dream, a new and exciting cultural center of performing arts for the Peninsula," said Anagnostou and Monte, producers of the Redwood City Fox Festival 2000 and owners of the Fox Theater. This New Year's event signals the new direction the Fox Theater is taking. The Fox Theater is being equipped with state of the art audio and visual facilities and infrastructure. Its modern lighting system will enable the hosting of other events such as the Internet broadcasting of live concerts and shows. Liquid Audio, one of the major sponsors of Fox Festival 2000, symbolizes this new century direction, as a music company that is behind the digital delivery of professional quality music over the Internet. Ticket Information For information on tickets to the Fox Festival 2000, call 650/FOX-4119 or 650/478-BASS. All-night tickets, from 7 p.m.-1:30 a.m., called Fox 2000 Gold Tickets, are $250 and include dinner and champagne, all the performances, and a count down surprise. The Fox 2000 Silver tickets, for the 10:30 p.m. entertainment, are $100 and include The Louis Bellson Millennium All Star Big Band performance and the count down surprise. |
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