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Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets are Back!

10/26/2015

Newport Jazz Festival®
Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back!
Tickets Available October 27 at 10:00 am and On-line at Newport Visitor Information Center

NEWPORT, RI, October 26, 2015 – Jazz fans can get a head start on their summer plans by purchasing flexible discount tickets to the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which is set for July 29 – 31. Tickets are available while supplies last at www.newportjazzfest.org and at the Newport Visitor Information Center, 23 America’s Cup Avenue, beginning Tuesday, October 27, at 10:00 am.

ALFI Records Releases Arturo Sandoval's Live at Yoshi's Tomorrow, 9/25

9/24/2015

Ten-time Grammy Winner Arturo Sandoval Joins
the New, International ALFI Records for His Latest CD Release

Sandoval’s “Live at Yoshi’s”
to Be Distributed by Naxos of America on September 25

Melbourne, Australia, September 24, 2015 – ALFI Records, the innovative record label based in Melbourne, Australia, has a mission to build a label that is made by and for artists and treats them like family. Founded by virtuoso jazz guitarist Albert Dadon, aka Albare, ALFI is proud to introduce its newest family member, the brilliant trumpet player Arturo Sandoval, whose new album, Live at Yoshi’s, will be available on September 25, 2015.

ALFI Records US Label Launch: Sandoval, Turcio, Orozco, Chindamo/Black, Albare

9/15/2015

ALFI Records Celebrates International Label
with Diverse Releases
Featuring Arturo Sandoval,
Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black,
Phil Turcio, César Orozco and
the Company’s Own Founder, Albare

Arturo Sandoval

Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black

Phil Turcio

César Orozco

Albare

Melbourne, Australia, September 15, 2015 – ALFI Records, the new international, multicultural record label founded by virtuoso jazz guitarist Albert Dadon (aka Albare) celebrates its worldwide launch with five releases by a roster of lauded musicians, including 10-time Grammy winner Arturo Sandoval, Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black, Phil Turcio and César Orozco as well as the label founder himself. Committed to filling a void for artists, ALFI is created by and for musicians, giving them a home and hands-on nurturing throughout the recording process.

ALFI (Art Lab For Innovation) Records is based in Melbourne with branches in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and Munich and is distributed by Naxos of America, Inc.

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.

Navy Northeast Brass Band Performs at Newport Jazz Festival Saturday & Sunday

7/30/2015

Newport Jazz Festival Broadens its Range Beyond Fort Adams Stages as Navy Band Northeast Brass Band Performs Early Saturday and Sunday

NEWPORT, RI, July 29, 2015 – Two of Newport’s most beloved and iconic organizations – the Newport Jazz Festival and the U.S. Navy – will unite during the 2015 Jazz Festival to greet Festival goers entering Fort Adams State Park.

On Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, from 9:00 am to 10:15 am, Navy Band Northeast Brass Band, the military’s jazz division, will kick off the days’ concerts with an early-bird musical greeting from the porch of the Fort Adams visitor center building.

Rhode Island Foundation Helps Underwrite 3rd Day at Newport Jazz Festival

7/23/2015

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™
Receives Second Grant
from Rhode Island Foundation
to Help Underwrite Friday at Fort Adams
to Showcase Emerging Performers

Snarky Puppy

NEWPORT, RI, July 23, 2015 – The Newport Festivals Foundation Inc.™ announced today that it has received a $40,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation to help underwrite the third day of music featuring emerging artists and future icons at the historic Newport Jazz Festival® on Friday, July 31, at Fort Adams State Park.

A grant from the Rhode Island Foundation last year helped the Festival stage a third full day of performances for the first time in decades.

“We are grateful that the Rhode Island Foundation has chosen to invest in the Newport Festivals Foundation for the second consecutive year to help us not only bring new and exciting music to the area, but also to encourage more visitors to Newport for a longer duration,” said George Wein, Producer of the Newport Jazz Festival and Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation. “Over the past four years, we have presented 45 young artists that should become known to jazz fans, and we’re pleased that Friday at the Fort continues to be a perfect platform for nurturing the future of jazz.”

This year, the Foundation awarded $35,000 as part of its grantmaking in the arts and $5,000 through the Thomas DePetrillo and Carol Keefe Fund.

Jon Batiste Plays 4 Concerts in One Week During Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals

7/16/2015

Newport Festivals Foundation™
Announces a Festival First:
Artist Jon Batiste and Stay Human to Do Quadruple Duty Performing at Fort Adams for
Both Folk and Jazz 2015 Festivals

Jon Batiste and Stay Human performing at the 2014 Newport Jazz Festival. (Photo credit: LaNita Adams)

NEWPORT, RI, July 16, 2015 – Jon Batiste is on a roll. The phenomenally talented, multi-instrumentalist and future CBS Late Night bandleader will have a huge presence in Newport this summer with four Newport Festivals Foundation concerts in a week. Along the way, he and his band, Stay Human, will make history.

On Sunday, July 26, Batiste and Stay Human (alto saxophonist Eddie Barbash and percussionist Joe Saylor) will grace the Fort Stage at the Newport Folk Festival® at Fort Adams. Come Friday evening, July 31, they’ll open the Newport Jazz Festival® concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino. On Saturday, Batiste and Stay Human head back to Fort Adams for a historic Jazz Festival moment. There, they will become the first group to play at the Fort for both Jazz and Folk Festivals in the same year. (In 2012, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band played the Fort at the Folk Festival and at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino for Jazz.)

Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA® to Dizzy's August 12, 7:30/9:30 pm

7/13/2015

Vocalist Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA®
to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola,
Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 & 9:30 pm

Renowned Broadway and Recording Star to Present Her Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Latin and International Music

NEW YORK, July 13, 2015 – The classically-trained powerhouse vocalist/pianist Luba Mason brings her trademarked MIXTURA, a genre-bending ride of different musical styles, to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 60th and Broadway, for one night only on Wednesday, August 12, at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm.

Following a recent performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center with her husband, Rubén Blades, Mason, a renowned Broadway and recording star, makes her debut performance at Dizzy’s with own stellar band featuring Musical Director/Vibraphonist/Percussionist Felipe Fournier, Guitarist Rafael Rosa, Bassist Dan Martinez, Drummer Joel Mateo and Violinist Sara Caswell.

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Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets are Back!

Newport Jazz Festival®
Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back!
Tickets Available October 27 at 10:00 am and On-line at Newport Visitor Information Center

ALFI Records Releases Arturo Sandoval's Live at Yoshi's Tomorrow, 9/25

Ten-time Grammy Winner Arturo Sandoval Joins
the New, International ALFI Records for His Latest CD Release

Sandoval’s “Live at Yoshi’s”
to Be Distributed by Naxos of America on September 25

ALFI Records US Label Launch: Sandoval, Turcio, Orozco, Chindamo/Black, Albare

ALFI Records Celebrates International Label
with Diverse Releases
Featuring Arturo Sandoval,
Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black,
Phil Turcio, César Orozco and
the Company’s Own Founder, Albare

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

Navy Northeast Brass Band Performs at Newport Jazz Festival Saturday & Sunday

Newport Jazz Festival Broadens its Range Beyond Fort Adams Stages as Navy Band Northeast Brass Band Performs Early Saturday and Sunday

Rhode Island Foundation Helps Underwrite 3rd Day at Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™
Receives Second Grant
from Rhode Island Foundation
to Help Underwrite Friday at Fort Adams
to Showcase Emerging Performers

Jon Batiste Plays 4 Concerts in One Week During Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals

Newport Festivals Foundation™
Announces a Festival First:
Artist Jon Batiste and Stay Human to Do Quadruple Duty Performing at Fort Adams for
Both Folk and Jazz 2015 Festivals

Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA® to Dizzy's August 12, 7:30/9:30 pm

Vocalist Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA®
to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola,
Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 & 9:30 pm

Renowned Broadway and Recording Star to Present Her Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Latin and International Music

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Newport Jazz Festival® Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back! Tickets Available October 27 at 10:00 am and On-line at Newport Visitor Information Center

Ten-time Grammy Winner Arturo Sandoval Joins the New, International ALFI Records for His Latest CD Release Sandoval’s “Live at Yoshi’s” to Be Distributed by Naxos of America on September 25

ALFI Records Celebrates International Label with Diverse Releases Featuring Arturo Sandoval, Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black, Phil Turcio, César Orozco and the Company’s Own Founder, Albare

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

Newport Jazz Festival Broadens its Range Beyond Fort Adams Stages as Navy Band Northeast Brass Band Performs Early Saturday and Sunday

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ Receives Second Grant from Rhode Island Foundation to Help Underwrite Friday at Fort Adams to Showcase Emerging Performers

Newport Festivals Foundation™ Announces a Festival First: Artist Jon Batiste and Stay Human to Do Quadruple Duty Performing at Fort Adams for Both Folk and Jazz 2015 Festivals

Vocalist Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA® to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 & 9:30 pm Renowned Broadway and Recording Star to Present Her Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Latin and International Music

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Newport Jazz Festival®
Flexible Discount Tickets Are Back!
Tickets Available October 27 at 10:00 am and On-line at Newport Visitor Information Center

Ten-time Grammy Winner Arturo Sandoval Joins
the New, International ALFI Records for His Latest CD Release

Sandoval’s “Live at Yoshi’s”
to Be Distributed by Naxos of America on September 25

ALFI Records Celebrates International Label
with Diverse Releases
Featuring Arturo Sandoval,
Joe Chindamo/Zoe Black,
Phil Turcio, César Orozco and
the Company’s Own Founder, Albare

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

Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™
Receives Second Grant
from Rhode Island Foundation
to Help Underwrite Friday at Fort Adams
to Showcase Emerging Performers

Newport Festivals Foundation™
Announces a Festival First:
Artist Jon Batiste and Stay Human to Do Quadruple Duty Performing at Fort Adams for
Both Folk and Jazz 2015 Festivals

Vocalist Luba Mason Brings MIXTURA®
to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola,
Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 & 9:30 pm

Renowned Broadway and Recording Star to Present Her Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Latin and International Music