It’s that time of year, again.
Le Grande Dame of Jazz Festivals which has purveyed innovative jazz for the past six decades returns August 1-3, 2014 at Fort Adams. The celebration has already begun.
The Newport Jazz Festival sprang from the minds of George Wein and tobacco heiress Elaine Lorillard. The latter wanted to introduce something to the summertude blandness of Newport, R.I. so they called upon a young entrepreneur who was presenting jazz at venues in Boston, MA. It was to be the premiere outdoor music festival anywhere. Even Woodstock used the Newport template with their engineers and producers as advisers.
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