​NEWPORT, RI, February 08, 2019 – Last call for Early Bird tickets for the 2019 Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Investment Managers. On Tuesday, February 12, at 10:00 am (EST), all ticket types will go on sale and the early bird discounts will end. In addition, Producer/Founder George Wein and Artistic Director Christian McBride will announce the First Wave of artists for this year’s festival, which is set for August 2 – 4 at Fort Adams State Park and the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino.
 
All tickets, except  for the Friday evening concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, will be available at www.newportjazz.org.

​NEW YORK, NY, January 23, 2019 – Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books – home of Cool People, Dope Books and Great Coffee – celebrates GLORY: A Life Among Legends, the new memoir by renowned dancer, educator, producer and author Dr. Glory Van Scott, with a special reading and book discussion on Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 pm. The store is located at 5445 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA.  The event is free and open to the public.
 
GLORY: A Life Among Legends (published by Water Street Press) honors artistic colleagues, explores integrity, examines sexism and racism in the arts, and encourages the new generation of artists.  It is a powerful memoir that takes the reader from an early life whose innocence is cut short almost overnight, to Dr. Van Scott’s dedication to the performing arts as a professional who would find herself at the vanguard of a new vision of African-American dance and theater securing its place as an original American art form. Dr. Van Scott’s story begins in Chicago, the daughter of a prosperous doctor and a loving stay-at-home mother. But, after her cousin Emmet Till is murdered, it not only galvanizes a country, but it also spurs Van Scott with a passion to speak truths through art.

After a twenty two year absence from recording Andy Bey returned with four albums that have become a permanent part of the musical landscape. The 2005 Grammy Nominated American Song is a delicious celebration of one of America's great gifts to the music world: The American Songbook. On his new release Ain't Necessarily So Bey brings the energy of live performance to compositions by the gods of American Songwriting. Insiders have always known about Andy Bey. Given his limited output of studio recordings, live performances were the source of Bey's reputation as singer. Aretha Franklin reminisces about the nights when Andy and The Bey Sisters worked the Village in New York: "Soon as I finished my gig I'd run over to hear them. Andy never got the recognition he deserved . . . jazz originals . . . brilliant and precious." Like the playground legend who never made it to the NBA, Andy Bey was almost consigned to the fading murmurs of those who caught him in Paris in '59, or Birdland in the mid '60s. There are few left who remember when Lena, Nina and Carmen crowded into Harlem's Shalimar to hear Bey light it up. That tantalizing footage of Andy Bey and his sisters delighting a crowd of Parisian partygoers in the Chet Baker documentary Let's Get Lost, gives us a clue of the years of brilliance that were never committed to vinyl. One can only imagine what we've missed. But, we have been blessed with four records that have changed how we think of Jazz vocals. Decades intervened between those after hours below the radar sessions and the 1996 recordings presented on Ain't Necessarily So. But the vivid performances haven't dimmed. Like so many before him, British vocalist Jamie Cullum described what it's like to fall under Bey's spell: "Andy Bey was at Ronnie Scott's and I saw him six nights in a row. I got into a huge amount of debt going to see Andy Bey. What I love about him is that he creates an atmosphere. As soon as he opens his mouth, you're transported to another place."
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