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Thanks For A Wonderful Festival

8/17/2015

More than 23,100 music lovers turned out July 31 - August 2 for the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management. Festival producer and Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, George Wein, shares some thoughts on this year's event in his regular blog, The Wein Machine.

In a DownBeat magazine review of the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival, Allen Morrison wrote that "a festival as significant and storied as Newport can be a force for good or evil, wielding influence far in excess of its three-day duration. Considering its provenance...it is more than a tastemaker, it's a market-maker."

I welcomed these words as I read them in DownBeat. Our staff works literally all year long to produce the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals. We know that there's a global influence in what we do with these two festivals. The jazz festival in particular has an international significance. Festival producers from all over the world join us to celebrate the beauty and glory that is jazz music.

Berklee College & Newport Festivals Foundation Announce the Global Jazz Workshop

8/11/2015

Berklee College and the Newport Festivals Foundation™ Announce
the Berklee Global Jazz Workshop at the Newport Jazz Festival for 2016

BOSTON, August 11, 2015 – The Berklee Global Jazz Workshop at the Newport Jazz Festival® debuts in 2016 for vocalists and instrumentalists to study with faculty and students from Berklee’s Global Jazz Institute. The program will take place at the Salve Regina University campus from July 25 – 29. At week’s end, students will perform on the Newport Jazz Festival stage. Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein and the Newport Festivals Foundation™ will provide 30 students with full scholarships to the workshop. Students can apply for the program starting October 1, 2015, at berklee.edu/summer.

Jazz in the Valley 2015 - Meet Bill Charlap

8/10/2015

BILL CHARLAP TRIO
with
Kenny Washington & Peter Washington

Bill Charlap,one of the world's premiere jazz pianists. He has performed with many leading artists of our time, ranging from Phil Woods and Tony Bennett to Gerry Mulligan and Wynton Marsalis. Since 1997, he has led the Bill Charlap Trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, now recognized as one of the leading groups in jazz. In 2000, he was signed to Blue Note Records and has since received two Grammy Award nominations, for Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and most recently The Bill Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard.

Kenny Washington, aka "the jazz maniac". One of the many young hard-bop revivalists to have arrived on the scene in the late '70s and early '80s. . Born in Brooklyn, Washington studied with the former Dizzy Gillespie drummer Rudy Collins.

Peter Washington, has been labeled the most recorded bassists of his generation. He has played an integral part in two of the most important and highly praised jazz trios of the last 20 years. He has played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. The breath of his career is his adaptability an in his emphasis on creative supportive swinging time playing as well as inventive and intelligent soloing.

Thanks For A Wonderful Festival

Berklee College & Newport Festivals Foundation Announce the Global Jazz Workshop

Berklee College and the Newport Festivals Foundation™ Announce the Berklee Global Jazz Workshop at the Newport Jazz Festival for 2016

Jazz in the Valley 2015 - Meet Bill Charlap

BILL CHARLAP TRIO with Kenny Washington & Peter Washington

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Berklee College and the Newport Festivals Foundation™ Announce
the Berklee Global Jazz Workshop at the Newport Jazz Festival for 2016

BILL CHARLAP TRIO
with
Kenny Washington & Peter Washington