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Various Artists: Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Volume 2

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 20, 2004

The second volume of this 50th Anniversary compilation presents several jam session-type tracks in the '50s, '60s and '70s, and in the second half female jazz vocalists in small combo settings. This disc acts as a bridge between the trad jazz and post-war swing artists as well as the big bands of Basie and Ellington, as ...

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Various Artists: Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Volume 3

Read "Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Volume 3" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 15, 2004

Without mincing words, the final compilation of this three disc series makes the best case for the bop generation and beyond between 1955-'63, closing with a coda from V.S.O.P. The Quintet in 1976. There is little reference to the postwar Swing Era most notably on Volume 1. Volume 3 begins with a previously unreleased ...

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