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Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary, Vol.1

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tin Roof Blues, Mack the Knife, By An' Bye, Echoe of Spring, Just You Just Me, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue, One O'Clock Jump, Tiger in Your Tank, Sweet Little Sixteen or Johnny B. Goode.

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Various Artists: Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary, Vol.1

Read "Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary, Vol.1" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


On July 17, 1954 Impresario George Wein opened the gates to the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and changed the face of jazz arena presentation for the second half of the Twentieth Century. He took what was essentially the concept of Jazz at the Philharmonic and moved it outdoors into a multi-day concert setting, ...


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