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8 unusual facts about Newport Jazz Festival


Anat Cohen

Cohen performs regularly and has appeared at a number of notable jazz festivals, including the Newport Jazz Festival, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Tudo É Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Cobblestone Records

Among the label's releases was a six-album issue of recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival New York of 1972.

Folded Wing

The show features artist interviews, live sessions recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, BBC archive recordings, and is sometimes recorded from jazz festivals around the world, such as the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in the UK and the Newport Jazz Festival in the USA.

Han Bennink

In 1963 he formed a quartet with pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Piet Noordijk which had a number of different bassists and which played at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, and in 1967 he was a co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool with Mengelberg and Willem Breuker, which sponsored Dutch avant garde performances.

Harold Mabern

Mabern has worked intermittently over a period of four decades with George Coleman, beginning in the 1960s, and including an appearance at the 1976 Newport Jazz Festival.

Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski

In 1958 he became the first Polish jazz musician to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival as a member of the International Youth Band.

Martial Solal

In 1963 he made a much admired appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island; the Newport '63 album purporting to be a recording of this gig is actually a studio recreation.

Mieko Hirota

In 1965, Mico became the first Japanese singer to appear at the Newport Jazz Festival.


Jimmy Giuffre

The group can be seen performing "The Train and the River" in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

June Christy

In 1972, she sang at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York City, where she was reunited with the Kenton Orchestra.

Live at Newport II

Live at Newport II was the third live recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and the second release of music from the band's performance at the 1977 Newport Jazz Festival (following Live at Newport '77).

Otis Spann

Material featuring Spann on DVD includes the Newport Jazz Festival (1960), the American Folk Blues Festival (1963), The Blues Masters (1966), and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (1968).

The Drinkard Singers

After an appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, they recorded the first gospel album to appear on a major label, the live album A Joyful Noise, for RCA Records in 1959.


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Chauncey Morehouse

He was seen at Carnegie Hall for the Tribute to Bix concert for the Newport Jazz Festival, and also at one of the early Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festivals in Davenport, Iowa.

Patricia Bosworth

She can also be seen as a notably disgruntled redhead in the audience of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, in Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960).