From its founding in 1954 until 2019, the Newport Jazz Festival had been canceled only once, for a single year…
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During her recording career thus far, Jen Shyu has drawn on a deep well of song, fable, and poetry from…
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…
After a year canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the historic Newport Jazz Festival has announced it will be presenting the…
In the four decades since the Newport Jazz festival first took place in 1954, it became a global brand with…