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Vernon Reid Added To 2017 Newport Jazz Festival Lineup

6/30/2017

NEW ARTIST ADDED!
PLEASE WELCOME VERNON REID TO THE 2017 NEWPORT JAZZ LINEUP

NEWPORT, RI -- George Wein and Christian McBride are pleased to announce that legendary guitarist and Living Colour founder Vernon Reid will perform a special set on the Storyville stage and guest with DJ Logic's Project Logic at the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which takes place August 4 - 6 at Fort Adams State Park and the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino.

Local Discounts for Newport Jazz Festival Ending July 4

6/27/2017

ENDING SOON …
$50 and $60 Discount Tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival®
Available at Newport Visitors Center
Through July 4

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.’s
Local Ticket Office Opens July 5

Maria Schneider (Photo credit: Ayano Hisa)

NEWPORT, RI, June 27, 2017 – Head to the Newport Visitors Information Center, 23 America’s Cup Avenue, by Tuesday, July 4, to take advantage of the great local discount for tickets to the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management. Discount tickets are just $50 for the concert at Fort Adams State Park on Friday, August 4, and $60 for General Admission tickets for concerts on Saturday, August 5, and Sunday, August 6. This special discount for local residents and visitors to Newport is not available on-line.

Beginning Wednesday, July 5, single-day tickets for Friday will be $65 in advance and $75 at the gate. Tickets for Saturday and Sunday will be $79 in advance and then $89 on festival days, if available.

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.’s local ticket and information office, located at 770 Aquidneck Avenue in Middletown, opens on July 5. Office hours are Tuesday through Friday, Noon - 6:00 pm, and Saturday, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. The office accepts cash, checks and all major credit cards.

Check Out New Music by Newport Jazz Festival Artists

6/26/2017

2017 Newport Jazz Festival® Artists Share
New Music August 4 - 6

NEWPORT, June 26, 2017 – As the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management draws near, jazz fans are encouraged to take time to listen to some of the new music that artists will be performing August 4 – 6 at Fort Adams State Park and the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino.

“Many of the artists we’re presenting at the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival have released ground-breaking and important new albums this season,” said Danny Melnick, Newport Jazz Festival Producer. “We encourage the audience to experience these artists live in Newport and to support them by purchasing their music.”

Jazz & Broadway Sensation Leslie Odom, Jr. Makes Newport Jazz Festival® Debut Friday, August 4

6/12/2017

Jazz Singer and Broadway Sensation
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Makes Newport Jazz Festival® Debut
Friday, August 4, at Fort Adams

NEWPORT, RI, June 13, 2017 – After winning awards and critical acclaim in the Broadway smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical, Leslie Odom, Jr. could have done anything. Doors opened, opportunities arose, but it is sharing his love for jazz that has taken the spotlight. He recorded an album of jazz standards and show tunes while still appearing on stage, eight shows a week. The self-titled album was released last year and Leslie Odom, Jr., the original Aaron Burr in Hamilton, has been touring in support of the record ever since. On Friday, August 4, he will make his debut at the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management.

Odom is an enormously talented, crossover star. When he burst onto the scene as the rapping, dancing founding father, the New York Times called him “suavely brooding.” The role made him a Tony and Grammy Award winner, but before that he was already a known TV actor and club performer. Odom, 35, was born in Queens, NY, grew up in Philadelphia and was a musical theater prodigy. He appeared in Rent on Broadway when he was just 17 while attending Philadelphia’s High School for Creative and Performing Arts. After graduating with honors from the School of Drama at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, he acted on television as Sam Strickland in TV’s Smash for two seasons and had a recurring role as Reverend Curtis Scott on Law & Order: SVU. Soon to conquer the big screen, Odom recently filmed a remake of Murder on the Orient Express with a star-studded cast that includes Dame Judi Dench and Johnny Depp, due in theaters in November.

Introducing The Jazz & Blues Art Box, A Remarkable Collection of Great Performances on Video

6/8/2017

Hans Zurbrügg, Wynton Marsalis, George Wein and Hank O’Neal
Present World Premiere of
THE JAZZ & BLUES ART BOX

NEW YORK, NY, June 8, 2017 – Art versus artifact: one we think of as a creative pursuit that is passionate, bursting and alive; the other as an object of historical significance. The Jazz & Blues Art Box is the near perfect fusion of both of these ideas.

Hans Zurbrügg, Founder/Producer, International Jazzfestival Bern; Wynton Marsalis, Trumpeter/Composer/Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center; George Wein, Founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Chairman of Newport Festivals Foundation; and Hank O’Neal, Photographer/Author/Music Producer unveiled The Jazz & Blues Art Box this evening before a group of collectors, jazz fans, industry leaders, musicians and media at a world-premiere event at The New School.

Archived from the storied International Jazzfestival Bern, The Jazz & Blues Art Box offers what Hank O’Neal calls the “most remarkable collection of jazz and blues performances on video ever assembled.” For universities and libraries, it is an educational research tool of unparalleled value. For music fans of all stripes, it’s a front row seat for watching some of the greatest musicians who have ever stepped on a stage.

To understand The Jazz & Blues Art Box is to go back to its origins in Bern, Switzerland. There, beginning in the early 1960s, noted Swiss entrepreneur and jazz enthusiast Hans Zurbrügg was seeding what would become one of Europe’s great jazz festivals, both as a musician in the Wolverines Jazz Band, and as a jazz club promoter. By 1976, Hans would be the founder and producer of the Bern Festival. Both up-and-coming musicians and the greats of the era (Oscar Peterson, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Clark Terry, Benny Carter, and Gerry Mulligan) hit the boards in Bern.

Vernon Reid Added To 2017 Newport Jazz Festival Lineup

NEW ARTIST ADDED! PLEASE WELCOME VERNON REID TO THE 2017 NEWPORT JAZZ LINEUP ​

Local Discounts for Newport Jazz Festival Ending July 4

ENDING SOON …$50 and $60 Discount Tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival®Available at Newport Visitors Center​Through July 4 Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.’sLocal Ticket Office Opens July 5​

Check Out New Music by Newport Jazz Festival Artists

2017 Newport Jazz Festival® Artists Share ​New Music August 4 - 6

Jazz & Broadway Sensation Leslie Odom, Jr. Makes Newport Jazz Festival® Debut Friday, August 4

Jazz Singer and Broadway SensationLeslie Odom, Jr.Makes Newport Jazz Festival® Debut​Friday, August 4, at Fort Adams

Introducing The Jazz & Blues Art Box, A Remarkable Collection of Great Performances on Video

Hans Zurbrügg, Wynton Marsalis, George Wein and Hank O’NealPresent World Premiere of ​THE JAZZ & BLUES ART BOX

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NEW ARTIST ADDED!
PLEASE WELCOME VERNON REID TO THE 2017 NEWPORT JAZZ LINEUP

ENDING SOON …
$50 and $60 Discount Tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival®
Available at Newport Visitors Center
Through July 4

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.’s
Local Ticket Office Opens July 5

2017 Newport Jazz Festival® Artists Share
New Music August 4 - 6

Jazz Singer and Broadway Sensation
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Makes Newport Jazz Festival® Debut
Friday, August 4, at Fort Adams

Hans Zurbrügg, Wynton Marsalis, George Wein and Hank O’Neal
Present World Premiere of
THE JAZZ & BLUES ART BOX