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fairfax jazz festival Why should you go to the Fairfax Jazz Festival? 1. 24 Performances on 9 stages! 2. Intimate setting - no big crowds, no bad seats! Cozy and cool! Small indoor venues; magical outdoor stage under redwood trees! Every stage is close enough to walk to! 3. One ticket gets you in to all the venues - no per venue, per act charge! 4. Nationally acclaimed artists and every local legend you ever wanted to see - all at one show! Harold Jones - Veteran of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Natalie Cole, etc., etc.! José Neto - Harry Belafonte said he was the best guitarist he ever had! 5. Acts you won't see anywhere else on the jazz circuit this year! Sons of Bitches Brew - Miles Davis alumnus does a tribute. The Sounds of Rhythm. Contemporary Big Band Spotlight - this ain't just Glenn Miller! Also, The Starduster Orchestra's tribute to Frank Sinatra! 6. Free dance lessons with Cynthia Glinka at the Tribute to Frank Sinatra event! 7. Best time of the year: Indian Summer weather! 8. Cheap! You can't beat $20 for all this music on the 30th; John Handy alone would cost that! It's just $15 for the Sinatra dance event on the 9th too... or you can buy tickets for both dates for only $27. 9. Quality: The musicians in these bands have collaborated or backed up the BEST in the world - from Miles Davis to Count Basie to Joe Henderson to Dizzy Gillespie to Ella Fitzgerald to... on & on & on! 10. Come and go as you please: buy a tickets, see some acts, go to dinner at one of the mouth-watering restaurants in town, then come back and see some more! p.o. box 1022 Fairfax, CA 94978 415.453.5928 |
Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Fairfax Jazz Festival announces dates for 2001 Dates for the Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival in 2001 have been announced. An evening dance concert, featuring the Starduster Orchestra, will be Saturday, Sept. 29. The festival, which will highlight a retrospective of 20th Century jazz, is set for Sunday, Sept. 30 at indoor and outdoor venues throughout downtown Fairfax. The 2000 festival raised $4,000 for its notable causes. The Sir Francis Drake High School music program and the Downtown Fairfax Beautification Project will each receive a $2,000 donation, announced Joe Agro, member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfax Jazz Festival. "The Fairfax Jazz Festival is a fantastic opportunity for us," said Chip Boaz, Drake High music Director. "The funds allow us to attend competitions and it helps with travel and instrument repair costs." The Sir Francis Drake High School Orchestra, a 20-piece Big Band that plays traditional jazz, swing, Latin jazz and fusion, performs each year at the Fairfax Jazz Festival. The Fairfax Jazz Festival not only exceed its fundraising goals, but increased its audience, despite changing from a two-day to one-day event. "We exceeded our expectations for the festival in attendance and our contributions to the Drake High music program and the Town of Fairfax," said Agro. "Even with festival becoming a one-day event, we topped the previous years attendance. The diversity of the music and the Sinatra Tribute contributed to the success of the 2000 festival." Fairfax Jazz Festival officials are presently booking a variety of jazz bands for the 2001 event, including Dixieland, progressive jazz and bands representing a spectrum 20th Century jazz. For more information call Joe Agro at 415-331-9999 www.fairfaxjazz.com Media contact only: Kim Taylor, publicist 415-897-7772 |
Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Calendar Editors/For immediate release Fairfax Jazz Festival Kicks-off with Frank Sinatra Tribute Opening Gala Dance & Concert. The Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival, a two day event, features a retrospective of 20th Century jazz. The event kick-offs with a gala dance & concert on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001. The main event is Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001 at indoor and outdoor venues throughout downtown Fairfax. Please see details enclosed. WHO: The Starduster Orchestra with vocalist Chuck Campagnet and special guest Harold Jones WHAT: "Frank Sinatra, the Man and his Bands"-A salute to "Ol' Blue Eyes" This opening gala event was produced especially for the Fairfax Jazz Festival and features The Starduster Orchestra with vocalist Chuck Campagnet and special guest artist Harold Jones. This gala event will feature many of Sinatra's big band hits as recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Count Basie and others. WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001 COST: $15 per person in advance. LOCATION: The Pavilion, located above Fairfax Park near Bolinas and Elsie Road, Fairfax PHONE: 415-453-5928 WEB SITE: www.fairfaxjazz.com or www.stardusterorchestra.com Media contact only: Kim Taylor, publicist 415-897-7772 |
Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce August, 2001 Contact: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 KABL Radio personality Jim Lange to MC jazzy line-up at Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival Bay Area personality and KABL radio host, Jim Lange, will serve as Master of Ceremonies at the Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival. The Sept. 29-30 event will feature a retrospective of jazz, featuring nationally acclaimed musicians and local talent. Jazz artists including the Harold Jones Big Band and their tribute to Count Basie; José Neto Acoustic Brazilian Jazz; Sons of Bitches Brew; Mel Martin and Noel Jewkes Quintet; Zydeco Flames; Mal Sharpe Big Money In Jazz Band; The Andrea Wolper Trio with Tim Volpicella and Ken Filiano; Steve Smith Mike Zilber Quartet; Naim Satya and The Rhythm Section; The Natural Gas Jazz Band and Colin Wenhardt Sextet "Kind of Blue" will perform at the all day event featuring music on several indoor and outdoor stages located in the heart of downtown Fairfax. Doo-wop sensations, The Sounds of Rhythm, will entertain on various street corners between sets. The festival goes into the evening with a special performance by Bud E. Luv and his new lounge act "Rat Pack Swing" and after festival performances by Jazz Philosophy, Connie Ducey & Namely Us and Judy Hall Jazz Jam. The festival also features the "next generation" of jazz with ensembles including The College of Marin Jazz Band; The Drake High Jazz Band; and the Wolfe Canyon Jazz Quintet. The festival, hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, kicks-off with a Opening Gala dance concert featuring The Starduster Orchestra at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001 and continues from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001. Opening Gala is $15 and general admission Sunday is $15 in advance or $20 at the door and $12 for youth 13 to 20-years old. For more information call 415-453-5928 or visit www.fairfaxjazz.com Fairfax Jazz Festival, P.O. Box 1022, Fairfax, CA 94978 Media contact only: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 |
Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Calendar Editors/For immediate release Fairfax Jazz Festival to feature retrospective of 20th Century jazz The Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival, a two day event, features a retrospective of 20th Century jazz. The event kick-offs with a gala dance & concert on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001. The main event is Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001 at indoor and outdoor venues throughout downtown Fairfax. Please see details enclosed. WHO: Acclaimed jazz artists including the Harold Jones Big Band and his tribute to Count Basie; José Neto Acoustic Brazilian Jazz; Sons of Bitches Brew; Mel Martin and Noel Jewkes Quintet; Zydeco Flames; Mal Sharpe Big Money In Jazz Band ; Bud E. Luv and his new lounge act "Rat Pack Swing" and more. WHAT: A retrospective of the entire 20th Century in jazz presented through 44 sets of music performed by 24 groups on 9 stages, including 7 indoor venues and two outdoor stages in Bolinas Park. One ticket good for all venues, all performances, all day. Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce. WHEN: 12 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001 WHERE: Venues and outdoor stages in downtown Fairfax. COST: $15 in advance or $20 at the door $12 for youth 13 to 20-years old See web site for advance ticket information (A portion of proceeds benefit the Sir Francis Drake High School Music Department and the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce) PHONE: 415-453-5928 WEB SITE: www.fairfaxjazz.com Media contact only: Kim Taylor, publicist 415-897-7772 |
Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce August, 2001 Contact: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival September 29 & 30, 2001 "A journey through jazz" This year Ken Burns introduced the origins and evolution of our uniquely American art forum jazz, to a wide popular audience. Starting with Afro-American rhythms we watched it develop from traditional jazz and blues into the music of the big bands, bebop, cool, hard bop and fusion right up to what we know today as modern jazz. The Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival is pleased and proud to recreate this journey. Beginning at the turn of the last century with modern interpretations of Dixieland and the sounds coming from the bayous of New Orleans and continuing through big band swing and its variations to bebop and beyond. As a special tribute to one of our great jazz innovators, Miles Davis who's 75th birthday we celebrate this year - we will showcase music from two of Miles' ground-breaking periods - the birth of his cool era with music from the "Kind of Blue" session and his watershed fusion innovations from the "Bitches Brew" period. Highlight of the festival is a must-experience tribute to the great Count Basie. The Bay Area's own treasure, Harold Jones, will lead this tip-of-the-hat to The Count. All of this and much, much more, plus a few surprises you will only experience at the Fairfax Jazz Festival. 415-453-5928 www.fairfaxjazz.com Fairfax Jazz Festival, P.O. Box 1022, Fairfax, CA 94978 |
Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival September 29 & 30, 2001 Mal Sharpe and the Big Money in Jazz Band and the Natural Gas Jazz Band start us on our journey through the 20th Century with traditional Dixieland music. Zydeco Flames will introduce us to early New Orleans' sounds that played an important part in the development of that regions' original music. Five big bands the Drake High School Jazz Ensemble, the College of Marin Jazz Band, Bud 'E Luv's band, The Starduster Orchestra and Harold Jones Big Band perform the music of artists like Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and many contemporary composers and arrangers. The Colin Wenhardt Sextet performs music from Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" and Blue Note era, and the "Sons of Bitches Brew. "with Barry Finnerty, Steve Smith and Mike Zilber mix the brew their name implies. Look for many other groups throughout the Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival to salute Miles in their own way, too. Hear swing from its beginning with the music of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and their contemporaries, performed by the Dale Alstrom Quartet. Swing with the Starduster Orchestra as they play big band music the way you remember it. Enjoy vocalist Chuck Campagnet and the Starduster Orchestra with their popular tribute to "Frank Sinatra the Man and His Bands," with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, Tommy Dorsey, Billy May and others. Rat Pack Swing, from Bud 'E Luv and his big band, showcases the music of Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Mel Torme and other hip singers. A winning combination of two headline groups - each featuring two of the Bay Area's finest musicians - will treat our audience to contemporary jazz at its finest. Mel Martin and Noel Jewkes, play together again for the very first time in a quintet format, and the Steve Smith/Mike Zilber Quartet, preview their newly released CD "Reimagined". Hear contemporary Brazilian jazz with Jose Neto and Jazz Philosophy. Catch the New York City based Andrea Wolper Trio with Ken Filiano and Tim Volpicella. Don't miss the exciting Wolfe Canyon Quintet, direct from their triumphant debut at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Enjoy many other local favorites like Naim Satya and the Rhythm Section, Tom Finch and Iguana Parts, Dori Green and Dave Bergman with Wanda Stafford, Shawkie Roth, the Sounds of Rhythm and others. Here, at the start of a new century, as we consider where jazz will go next, it is appropriate to look back at the last century to appreciate the framework for what is yet to come. At the Fourth Annual Fairfax Jazz Festival, on September 29-30, you can take this look back. You will enjoy a retrospective of the entire 20th Century in jazz presented through 44 sets of music performed by 24 groups on 9 stages, including 7 indoor venues and two outdoor stages in Bolinas Park. Don't miss this unique walk-around jazz festival presented in Fairfax, "the little town with a big taste for jazz." 415-453-5928 www.fairfaxjazz.com Fairfax Jazz Festival, P.O. Box 1022, Fairfax, CA 94978 Media contact only: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 |
THE FOURTH ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Presented in the little town with a big taste for jazz Hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce For immediate release August, 2001 Contact: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 Jazz legend Jon Hendricks to headline Fairfax Jazz Festival The Fourth Fairfax Jazz Festival proudly presents jazz legend Jon Hendricks. "There are no mistakes in jazz, only opportunities," said Jon Hendricks the 80-year old jazz legend regarded by jazz aficionados for his talents as a singer, songwriter and lyricist. Revered as the "King of Vocalese," he was a member of the acclaimed jazz vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and has written or lyricized some four-hundred songs. Today, Hendricks, dubbed by jazz critic Leonard Feather as "the Poet Laureate of jazz," continues to perform and is professor of jazz studies at the University of Toledo teaching jazz history and techniques including "vocalstra." The festival, hosted by the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, kicks-off with an Opening Gala dance concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001 featuring The Starduster Orchestra with Chuck Campagnet and a special performance with Jon Hendricks and the Larry Vuckovich and Harold Jones Quartet featuring Noel Jewkes in a tribute to Frank Sinatra. At the main event noon to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001, Jon Hendricks performs with the Harold Jones Big Band in a tribute to Count Basie. Saturday's Opening Gala is $15 in advance or $20 at the door and general admission to the main event on Sunday is $15 in advance or $20 at the door and $12 for youth 13 to 20-years old. For more information call 415-453-5928 or visit www.fairfaxjazz.com Jon Hendricks welcomes interviews. To arrange an interview, call Joe Agro at 415-331-9999 Fairfax Jazz Festival, P.O. Box 1022, Fairfax, CA 94978 Media contact only: Kim Taylor 415-897-7772 |
