Newport Jazz Festival Archives

2018 Newport Jazz Festival: Special Recap

In between bouts of torrential rain and sticky heat, hundreds of musicians played for tens of thousands of listeners over the course of three days … Read More “2018 Newport Jazz Festival: Special Recap”

Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Three

“I view the [jazz] tradition as being like the roots of a tree,” the bassist Christian McBride told JT writer Nate Chinen in 2013. “But you … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Three”

Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Two

There’s a very true cliché that jazz musicians, producers, promoters and other industry folks like to deploy in case of emergency, when something that had … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Two”

Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day One

There’s a story, an angle to the Newport Jazz Festival this year, other than the long-running narrative about it being an enduring institution of jazz … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day One”

Review: The 2015 Newport Jazz Festival

A wide-ranging program and warm, sunny weather at this jazz institution

Review: The Newport Jazz Festival 2014

At 60, not only still going, but still growing

Newport Jazz Festival 2013

A dependably impressive lineup at one of jazz’s most picturesque locales

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2012 Newport Jazz Festival Review – Legends and Lions

2012 Newport Jazz Festival Review by Karen Brundage-Johnson Photos by Ben Johnson August 3- 5, 2012 Produced and co-founded by legendary Jazz impresario George Wein, … Read More “2012 Newport Jazz Festival Review – Legends and Lions”