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Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets Are Back; Available at Visitor Info Center

10/24/2013

Newport Jazz Festival®
Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back

Tickets Available October 24 at 10:00 am at Newport Visitor Information Center

NEWPORT, RI, October 23, 2013 – The Newport Jazz Festival® 60th Anniversary is set for August 1 – 3, 2014 and the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ is already celebrating. Jazz fans can stake their claim in the history of jazz by purchasing flexible discount tickets while supplies last at the Newport Visitor Information Center, 23 America’s Cup Avenue, beginning October 24 at 10:00 am.

TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival Sarah Vaughan Competition Winners

10/8/2013

Five Finalists and a “Rising Star” Chosen For

Al Jarreau, Janis Siegel, Gretchen Parlato, WBGO’s Gary Walker
and Larry Rosen to Choose Winner of the SASSY Award

Newark, NJ – (October 8, 2013) In 1942, a teenage Sarah Vaughan won the Apollo Theater’s amateur singing competition in a performance that was a launching pad for a career that transformed one of America’s original art forms and elevated the craft of jazz vocal music. Last year, Cyrille Aimee focused the world on vocal jazz in Newark again as the first-ever winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, part of the TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival. For the second installment of the awards, a distinguished panel of musicians, music industry executives, NJPAC leadership and online voters culled through hundreds of submissions from the around the globe, including United States, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Luxembourg, Belgium, Hungary and Canada, to choose five finalists and a “Rising Star” for the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, the largest competition of its kind in the world.

George Wein: 88 and Counting!

9/30/2013

88 and Counting!
George Wein Celebrates 88th Birthday, October 3

Celebration Includes Performances at
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room
October 3 and 4, 7:00 pm

George Wein (Photo credit: Ayano Hisa)

NEW YORK, September 27, 2013 – Eighty-eight. It’s a number that in China conveys good fortune. For ham radio operators “88” is shorthand for hugs and kisses. Astronomers will tell you that there are eighty-eight constellations in the sky. But for George Wein that number hits a little closer to home. This October, the world-renowned jazz and music impresario will be celebrating his 88th birthday. The celebration includes George Wein: The Life of a Legend, a two-night run at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room on October 3 and 4, at 7:00 pm.

George Wein: The Life of A Legend - October 3 & 4, 7pm, The Allen Room

9/18/2013

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER CELEBRATES
GEORGE WEIN: THE LIFE OF A LEGEND

George Wein and the Newport All-Stars
Featuring Lew Tabackin,
Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen,
Howard Alden, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash
and Host Nate Chinen

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room
October 3 & 4 at 7pm

Photo credit: Ayano Hisa

Photo credit: John Abbott

New York, NY, September 17, 2013 – Jazz impresario and pianist George Wein, affectionately referred to as “The Father of Jazz Festivals” after creating the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, celebrates his 88th birthday by performing with his Newport All-Stars in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room on October 3 & 4 at 7pm. Joining Wein for these special concert events are tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin, trumpeter Randy Brecker, clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen, guitarist Howard Alden, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash. New York Times jazz journalist (and Wein’s biographer) Nate Chinen hosts the events. Wein will swing firmly in the here-and-now, and retrospect on his life and times with stories and photos from his personal collection.

JESSYE NORMAN To Be Special Guest Host on WBGO Tuesday, 9/10, Noon

9/6/2013

JESSYE NORMAN TO HOST AN HOUR
ON WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM
MID-DAY JAZZ WITH RHONDA HAMILTON
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, NOON

Ms. Norman Also Will Serve
as Honorary Chair and Hostess
**of WBGO’s LADY DAY Benefit,
Starring Dee Dee Bridgewater,
on September 24, 7:00 pm,
at the Little Shubert Theatre**

Jessye Norman (Photograph By Carol Friedman)

NEWARK, NJ, September 6, 2013 – Jessye Norman is known the world over as one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time, but that doesn’t stop her from being a devoted jazz fan. Ms. Norman will participate in the ultimate jazz lover’s experience when she hosts an hour of her favorite music on Mid-Day Jazz with Announcer Rhonda Hamilton on WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM/wbgo.org on Tuesday, September 10, from noon – 1:00 pm.

WBGO Launches Ad Campaign and Social Media Contest #MakeJazz In NJ & NY

8/29/2013

WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Launches Media Campaign
with Billboards and Kiosks in New Jersey
and New York

Varick Street Billboard Sparks Friendly Controversy
and Host-An-Hour Social Media Contest

NEWARK, NJ, August 29, 2013 – Do you want to be a guest DJ on WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM? Here’s how: Find WBGO ads on telephone kiosks, street pole banners, billboards and digital billboards located throughout New Jersey and in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including by the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. Before midnight on September 9, post pictures of one of the station’s ads on Facebook or Twitter and tag it with #makejazz. Everyone who posts a picture is eligible to win a WBGO Host-An-Hour. As co-host, the winner can work with his/her favorite WBGO DJ, select songs from the extensive music catalog, and go ON-THE-AIR LIVE! At the end, the guest host will go home with a CD of the hour-long hosting experience.

WBGO/Actors Fund Benefit: Lady Day w/Dee Dee Bridgewater + Hostess Jessye Norman

8/28/2013

WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM and The Actors Fund
Host A Special Benefit Performance
of new Billie Holiday Musical Lady Day
Starring Dee Dee Bridgewater
Tuesday, September 24, 7:00 pm
at Little Shubert Theatre

Renowned Opera Star JESSYE NORMAN
to Serve as Honorary Chair and Hostess of Benefit

Tickets On Sale Now
Previews Begin September 19 ● Opening Slated for October 3

NEWARK, NJ, August 28, 2013 – Don’t miss an exclusive Jazz and Broadway experience when WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM joins forces with The Actors Fund to host a special benefit performance of Lady Day, the new musical about Billie Holiday starring Tony and multiple Grammy® Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater on Tuesday, September 24, at 7:00 pm at the Little Shubert Theatre, 422 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues) in New York City. Tickets for Lady Day are on sale now.

Newport Festivals Foundation 2013 Recap; Get Ready for the 60th in 2014!

8/20/2013

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™
Celebrates Successful 2013 Newport Jazz Festival®
Amid Plans for 60th Anniversary
Set for August 1 – 3, 2014

Wayne Shorter

Esperanza Spalding

Jon Batiste

NEWPORT, RI, August 20, 2013 – Imagine celebrating your 59th anniversary with over 17,000 people of all generations and walks of life. And now imagine that it’s during a summer weekend in one of the most scenic locations on earth. And lastly, picture the soundtrack to that weekend coming from some of the greatest jazz musicians from around the globe. If you can picture that, you can picture the 59th Newport Jazz Festival® Presented by Natixis Global Asset Management.

Josh Jackson Named WBGO's New VP of Content

8/19/2013

Josh Jackson Named
WBGO Vice President of Content

NEWARK, NJ, August 19, 2013 – Josh Jackson has been named to the newly-created position of Vice President of Content of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, it was announced today by Amy Niles, the station’s Acting President and CEO. Jackson, who continues as host of WBGO’s hour-long music magazine, The Checkout, was previously Special Projects Producer.

“I am pleased to name Josh as our Vice President of Content,” said Niles. “This new position reflects the evolving nature of WBGO as both a creator and distributor of content for our communities of Jazz and News. Josh has a keen understanding and respect for the past, present and future of jazz. He is the personification of WBGO’s mission to continue the vibrancy of this music as a cultural art form and his enthusiasm for broadcasting is contagious.”

Natixis/Newport Jazz Festival Scholarship Winners: Chase Ceglie & Ray Fuller

7/30/2013

Natixis Global Asset Management and Newport Jazz Festival Announce 2013 Scholarship Recipients and Performance Lineup

· Newport Music Scholarships will go to Chase Ceglie from Rhode Island Music Educators Association Senior All-State Jazz Band and Ray Fuller from Massachusetts Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Band

Boston, July 29, 2013 – Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) and Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™, in their third year partnering on the Newport Jazz Festival®, today announced the winners of the Natixis Global Asset Management Newport Jazz Festival Scholarships. In an expansion of its scholarship program, this year NGAM will grant two $5,000 scholarships. The awards will be presented at the Newport Jazz Festival to Chase Ceglie, tenor saxophonist in the Rhode Island Music Educators Association (RIMEA) Senior All-State Jazz Band, and to Ray Fuller, trumpeter with the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) All-State Jazz Band. RIMEA is set to perform on the Harbor Stage on Saturday, August 3, at 10:45 a.m. and MMEA will perform on the Harbor Stage on Sunday, August 4, at 11 a.m.

“We’re pleased to have the continued support of Natixis Global Asset Management as we near the Newport Jazz Festival’s incredible milestone of 60 years,” said George Wein, producer and chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. “I’m blessed to be able to share the gift of music and expose audiences to both the legends of jazz and the up-and-coming talents. NGAM’s support helps broaden those opportunities.”

“Partnering with George Wein on the Newport Jazz Festival is truly an honor,” said John Hailer, president and chief executive officer, Natixis Global Asset Management – The Americas and Asia. “His passion for music is infectious, and his effort to maintain the legacy of the festival across the globe aligns well with our corporate philosophy of thinking about the long term and uniting global cultures.”

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Newport Jazz Festival® Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back Tickets Available October 24 at 10:00 am at Newport Visitor Information Center

88 and Counting! George Wein Celebrates 88th Birthday, October 3 Celebration Includes Performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room October 3 and 4, 7:00 pm

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER CELEBRATES GEORGE WEIN: THE LIFE OF A LEGEND George Wein and the Newport All-Stars Featuring Lew Tabackin, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen, Howard Alden, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash and Host Nate Chinen Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Allen Room October 3 & 4 at 7pm

JESSYE NORMAN TO HOST AN HOUR ON WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM MID-DAY JAZZ WITH RHONDA HAMILTON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, NOON Ms. Norman Also Will Serve as Honorary Chair and Hostess of WBGO’s LADY DAY Benefit, Starring Dee Dee Bridgewater, on September 24, 7:00 pm, at the Little Shubert Theatre

WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Launches Media Campaign with Billboards and Kiosks in New Jersey and New York Varick Street Billboard Sparks Friendly Controversy and Host-An-Hour Social Media Contest

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ Celebrates Successful 2013 Newport Jazz Festival® Amid Plans for 60th Anniversary Set for August 1 – 3, 2014

Josh Jackson Named WBGO Vice President of Content

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