abstract:The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by socialite Elaine Lorillard, who, together with husband Louis Lorillard, financed the festival for many years.
Over the years, the Newport Jazz Festival presented greats like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.
VOA: special.2009.06.08
Eight years after the first NewportJazzFestival, New Orleans tourism and business leaders approached Wein about creating a similar festival in New Orleans.
" Jazz on a Summer's Day " (New Yorker Video ): Bert Stern's remarkable evocation of the 1958 NewportJazzFestival, plus a behind-the-scenes documentary of the celebrated still photographer at work on his only motion picture.
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 NewportJazzFestival.