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Newport Festivals Foundation Announces 2012 Dates for Folk & Jazz Festivals
NEWPORT, RI: George Wein, Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce the dates of the 2012 Folk and Jazz festivals in Newport, RI. The Newport Folk Festival will be held July 28th and the Newport Jazz Festival is set for August 3rd. Additional information will be announced in the coming months. “Following ...
Russ Garcia Celebrates 95th Birthday with Shaynee Rainbolt & Terese Genecco
LIVING LEGEND RUSSELL GARCIA CELEBRATES 95TH BIRTHDAY WITH THREE CITY U.S. TOUR See Russ Garcia on stage with award-winning jazz vocalists Shaynee Rainbolt & Terese Genecco at The Catalina Bar & Grill, Los Angeles, October 26; Yoshi's, Oakland, November 1; and Iridium Jazz Club, New York, November 6 NEW YORK, NY, September 8, 2011—On the heels ...
Fountains of Swinging Youth at Newport Jazz Festival
" [I] think we should allow these young players to share the spotlight, until the public can fully accept them ... these are all great players who are trying to find their own voice; trying to add something to the music that becomes part of the mainstream of what is happening. And it's a privilege for ...
Newport Jazz Festival Saxophone Summit!
NEWPORT, RI—Jazz is the ultimate music of collaboration—or, as they say in today's younger generation, “collab." For six decades, George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival® —now presented by Natixis Global Asset Management—has been the scene of many exciting and historic mash-ups featuring saxophonists. This year's edition of the festival exhibits an unprecedented array of sax masters old ...
Jazz With Strings Attached at the Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT, RI—Saxophones, trumpeters, drummers, and keyboards; those are the traditional instruments you often hear in every era of jazz, and, most likely at every jazz festival. But along the way, the stringed instruments have also made their mark. Guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass; violinists like Ray Nance and Stephane Grappelli, and bassists like Ron ...
Four Generations of Jazz Pianists Perform at Newport Jazz Festival
NEWPORT, RI—No other instrument in jazz is as complex and comprehensive as the piano. By extension, the pianists who play it represent all of the vivid and varied complexities of the art form, from the percussive pianisms of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, to the get down grooves of Horace Silver, and the harmonic hurricanes generated ...
Berklee's Mario Castro Quintet performs at the Newport Jazz Festival
Boston, MA—Berklee College of Music's Mario Castro Quintet will perform at the 57th annual Newport Jazz Festival, which features some of the most innovative acts in jazz, on four stages, over three days. Castro's band, composed of some of Berklee's finest musicians, has been a regular fixture at Wally's Café, the legendary Boston club where many ...
Veteran Jazz Stars Shine at Newport Jazz Festival on August 5th
NEWPORT, RI—Real jazz is music for grown-ups, played by grown-ups. And, as the impressive array of artists assembled at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival Presented by Natixis Global Asset Management aurally illustrates, with rare exceptions, most musicians arrive at their own sound when they hit their thirties and forties. So when you see them, it's not ...
A Joyful Noise: Big Bands x 2 at Newport Jazz Festival
August 5-7, 2011 International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI—From Duke Ellington's “rebirth" in 1956 and Count Basie's Sixteen Men Swinging, to Dizzy Gillespie's bebop sounds and the soulful strains of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival has presented the full ...
Brass Masters Sound Off at Newport Jazz Festival
August 5-7, 2011 International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino Fort Adams State Park NEWPORT, RI—From its inception in the fifties, the Newport Jazz Festival has been the place to hear the full scope of the jazz trumpet tradition: from the promethean horn of Louis Armstrong and the re-birth of the ...
