Jimmy Heath. Tony Allen. Chick Corea. Wallace Roney. McCoy Tyner. The names and pictures of iconic artists who passed since…
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After a year canceled by COVID-19, audience members on July 31st, the first day of the 2021 Newport Jazz Festival…
We continue our conversation with Christian McBride by discussing his thoughts on the connection between music and sports, his work…
From its founding in 1954 until 2019, the Newport Jazz Festival had been canceled only once, for a single year…
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With the success of the 50th Anniversary event, Festival Productions Inc. quickly began work on the 2005 Festival. Like the…
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Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger once noted that “[i]f a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually…
An intense and unceasing downpour left a twenty-eight-year-old George Wein with the difficult question of whether to abruptly cancel his…