Bellamy Jazz Band
Sunday, Apr. 11, 2010, 2 pm
A Maine favorite, this eight piece band, which has been together for 28
years playing traditional New Orleans and Chicago jazz and swing, has won
popularity awards many years in a row. Bellamy plays a loose, jammin’ jazz
ranging from Preservation Hall to prehistoric swing, jazz, ballads, dance hall
tunes, and just a suggestion that they’ve heard rock and roll. Jazz came
roaring out of the 20’s with a wild vitality and irreverence, and Bellamy aims
to keep it that way. You will hear Louis Armstrong “Hot Five“ classics
“Muscat Ramble” and “Basin Street Blues” – also all-time classics
“St. Louis Blues” and “When the Saints Come Marching in”. When they are
not jammin’, most are teaching music in the school systems in the Portland
area.
A Maine favorite, this eight piece band, which has been together for 28
years playing traditional New Orleans and Chicago jazz and swing, has won
popularity awards many years in a row. Bellamy plays a loose, jammin’ jazz
ranging from Preservation Hall to prehistoric swing, jazz, ballads, dance hall
tunes, and just a suggestion that they’ve heard rock and roll. Jazz came
roaring out of the 20’s with a wild vitality and irreverence, and Bellamy aims
to keep it that way. You will hear Louis Armstrong “Hot Five“ classics
“Muscat Ramble” and “Basin Street Blues” – also all-time classics
“St. Louis Blues” and “When the Saints Come Marching in”. When they are
not jammin’, most are teaching music in the school systems in the Portland
area.