The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established...
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in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival. The festival was founded by music promoter and Jazz Festival founder George Wein, music manager...
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Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized...
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Live at Newport '58 is a live album by jazz pianist Horace Silver. The album was recorded on July 6, 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival. Blue Note Records...
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Wein, a jazz mogul and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and asked him to bring his festival model to...
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George Wein (category American jazz pianists)
an American jazz promoter, pianist, and producer. He was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island...
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Newport 1955–1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 is a four-CD album compiling five of Miles Davis's performances at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport,...
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2-5 originally issued on Miles & Monk at Newport; tracks 6 and 7 originally issued on Newport Jazz Festival Live; John Coltrane appears courtesy of Prestige...
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Music of Rhode Island (section Newport Jazz Festival)
rock, jazz, hardcore punk, hip hop, and Cape Verdean music.[citation needed] The state is known for the famous Newport Jazz and Newport Folk festivals.[citation...
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Healdsburg Jazz Festival in Healdsburg Hyatt Regency Newport Beach Jazz Festival in Newport Beach Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey Newport Beach Jazz Party...
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01778 Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao was an annual jazz festival held in July and August at Madarao, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The festival featured...
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New Thing at Newport is a 1965 live album featuring two separate sets from that year's Newport Jazz Festival by tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Archie...
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Elaine Lorillard (section Newport Jazz Festival)
– November 26, 2007) was an American socialite who founded the Newport Jazz Festival with her husband, Louis Lorillard. Elaine Guthrie was born in Tremont...
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Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall is a 1973 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a...
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At Newport 1960 is a live album by Muddy Waters recorded during his performance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960. With his longtime backup...
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Newport '63 is a live album by jazz musician John Coltrane recorded at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival, with one additional track recorded at the Village...
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of Fame. The Newport Casino also hosted the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. James Gordon Bennett, Jr. was a summer resident of Newport and in August...
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Max Roach + 4 at Newport is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 and released on the EmArcy label...
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Jazz on a Summer's Day is a 1959 concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island (which took place from July 3 to July 6 of...
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California city of Newport Beach) Newport Jazz Festival, in Newport, Rhode Island, also referred to sometimes as simply Newport, especially in the titles of...
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in August 1960; the recording taken from a concert held at the Newport Jazz Festival earlier in the year, on 30 June 1960. The album was her fourth overall...
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was also based in Newport. Fort Adams State Park hosts both the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival. The Jazz Festival was established in...
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Newport Festival may refer to a number of events in the United States: Newport Jazz Festival (begun 1954), a music festival held every August Newport...
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Lorillards, of tobacco fame, envisioned Belcourt as a seat for the Newport Jazz Festival. The lawns on Bellevue Avenue could accommodate over 10,000 and...
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Fort Adams State Park (category Geography of Newport, Rhode Island)
in Newport, Rhode Island, that was active from 1841 through the first half of the 20th century. The state park hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival and...
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Ray Charles at Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. The detailed liner notes on the album...
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came from the Newport Jazz Festival, held in the US since 1954. In 1964 the festival changed its name to "The National Jazz and Blues Festival", which reflected...
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at Newport is a split album featuring separate performances by the Miles Davis sextet and the Thelonious Monk quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival. It...
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the J. J. Johnson/Kai Winding Quintet performances at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival which was released on the Columbia label. Allmusic awarded the album...
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Newport 1958 is a 1958 album by Duke Ellington, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival of that year and later in the Columbia recording studio. It was...
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