Eight years after the first Newport Jazz Festival, New Orleans tourism and business leaders approached Wein about creating a similar festival in New Orleans.

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" Jazz on a Summer's Day " (New Yorker Video ): Bert Stern's remarkable evocation of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, plus a behind-the-scenes documentary of the celebrated still photographer at work on his only motion picture.

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In a set filled with angular, thoroughly modern originals, the supergroup of bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter and drummer Eric Harland kicked off the Saturday program at the Newport Jazz Festival.

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