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Newport Jazz Festival Introduces App and Releases Daily Schedules

7/7/2015

2015 Newport Jazz Festival Launches New App

Download Your App Today at Apple App Store or Google Play Store

Daily Schedules Also Available at www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

NEWPORT, RI, July 7, 2015 – The 2015 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management is introducing a new mobile app in time for the 61st celebration of America’s first annual jazz festival. The official festival companion app, which goes live today, includes performance schedules, customizable schedule, artist profiles and a festival map.

To download the app to your mobile device, go to:

Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newport-jazz/id997809820?mt=8

Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.award.newportjazz&hl=en

To download and print daily schedules with set times and stages, go to: www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

The Newport Jazz Festival app is designed by Aaron Ward, a systems analyst with New York University and festival application developer.

Vibraphonist Composer JAY HOGGARD @ Jazzmobile Grant's Tomb Park Wednesday, July 15

7/6/2015

$55 Newport Jazz Festival® Discount Tickets End July 12; Festival Office Opens

6/29/2015

$55 Newport Jazz Festival®
Discount Tickets End July 12

Newport Festivals Foundation’s
Middletown Office Is Now Open

NEWPORT, RI, June 30, 2015 – There’s still time to take advantage of the great local discount for Newport Jazz Festival® tickets. Head to the Newport Visitors Information Center, 23 America’s Cup Avenue, or the Newport Festivals Foundation™ office at 770 Aquidneck Avenue in Middletown by July 12 to take advantage of $55 General Admission tickets for concerts at Fort Adams State Park on Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2. Beginning Monday, July 13, single-day tickets for Saturday and Sunday will be $74 in advance and then $84 on festival days. This special discount for local residents and visitors to Newport is not available on-line.

General Admission tickets to Friday at Fort Adams (July 31) are $40 and also available at the Visitors Information Center and Festival office.

Newport Jazz Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Miles Davis

6/25/2015

Newport Jazz Festival Celebrates
60 Years of Miles Davis
on New "Storyville" Stage, August 1-2

Award-winning Author Ashley Kahn Curates
Four Panel Discussions and Presents Music
from the
New Columbia/Legacy Recordings Box Set

Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975:
The Bootleg Series Vol.4
To Be Available Everywhere on July 17

NEWPORT, RI, June 24, 2015 – When a teenage George Wein regularly left his parents’ home in Newton, MA, to sneak down to the Big Apple to catch concerts on legendary 52nd Street, he had no idea that his love for jazz would lead to a life-long music career, including owning Storyville, a world-class jazz club in Boston that was home to every major jazz star, and creating the iconic Newport Jazz Festival.

Wein also built enduring friendships with some of the world’s leading musicians. Among his friends was trumpet player Miles Davis, whom he first met in 1952 when they were both beginning to make names for themselves. Miles brought down the house at Storyville, whenever he performed there; and he received the same rave reaction on the stage at the second annual Newport Jazz Festival in scenic Newport, RI.

George Wein Brings Storyville to Newport Jazz Festival

5/19/2015

George Wein Brings Storyville to
Newport Jazz Festival®

Joey Alexander

Helen Sung (photo credit: Kathy Villacorta)

Aaron Diehl (photo credit: John Abbott)

NEWPORT, RI, May 19, 2015 – George Wein’s life in music took its most important turn when Newport socialite Elaine Lorillard walked into his jazz club, Storyville, with a Boston University professor in 1953. Lorillard and her husband Louis were interested in bringing some excitement to Newport and the professor thought Wein was just the person to help. From that meeting, Wein developed the idea to present a jazz festival, and now, 61 years later, Wein is bringing Storyville to the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management.

Storyville, a new intimate festival stage that will be located in the Museum of Yachting at Fort Adams State Park on Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, will feature piano performances by Frank Kimbrough, Helen Sung, Christian Sands, Aaron Diehl, Giorgi Mikadze and the 11-year old prodigy, Joey Alexander. In addition, Grammy Award®-winning author and music historian Ashley Kahn will curate two seminars each day on renowned trumpet player Miles Davis, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Davis’ first performance at Newport on July 17, 1955.

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Boston University on Sunday

5/13/2015

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate
at Boston University Commencement on
Sunday, May 17

Photo credit: Ayano Hisa

NEW YORK, NY, May 13, 2015 – George Wein, music impresario, NEA Jazz Master and Grammy Award winner, will receive an Honorary Doctorate at Boston University’s (BU) 142nd Commencement on Sunday, May 17.

MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4 SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE JULY 17

4/30/2015

MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4 SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE JULY 17 THROUGH
COLUMBIA/LEGACY RECORDINGS

FOUR-CD BOX SET TRACKS MILES’ ASCENDANCE OVER EIGHT LIVE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES SPANNING 20 YEARS IN NEWPORT, NEW YORK, BERLIN, AND SWITZERLAND; 296-MINUTE PROGRAM INCLUDES NEARLY FOUR HOURS OF
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL

Newport Jazz Festival To Be Held July 31-August 2 Celebrates the Iconic Trumpeter’s Relationship with the Legendary Newport Jazz Festival and Its Revered Founder-Impresario George Wein, Commemorating the 60th Anniversary Of Miles’ Newport Debut With Musical Tributes, Workshops And More

(April 30, 2015 – New York, NY) Miles Davis’ 20-year association as an artist at impresario George Wein’s renowned Newport Jazz Festival is a thriving tradition that will be celebrated with the release of MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4. The four-CD box set, comprised of live performances by Miles’ stellar band lineups in 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975, in Newport, Rhode Island, New York City, Berlin, and Switzerland, will be the lynchpin for a 60th anniversary commemorative weekend of events at this summer’s annual Newport Jazz Festival (July 31, August 1 & 2). Ahead of the festival, MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975 will be available everywhere on Friday, July 17 -- 60 years to the date since Davis’ breakthrough performance at Newport in 1955 -- through Columbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. An interview with Newport Jazz Festival founder-impresario, George Wein, discussing his relationship with Miles Davis, can be viewed here: http://vevo.ly/GOueyx. Fans are now able to pre-order the 4-CD set bundled with a poster exclusively from MilesDavis.com (http://smarturl.it/miles_newport_d2c). The set is also available for pre-order on Amazon (http://smarturl.it/miles_newport_amzn).

Newport Festivals Foundation and Salve Regina University to Present Performance and Jazz Combo Master Class on International Jazz Day

4/22/2015

Newport Festivals Foundation™ and
Salve Regina University
to Present Performance and Jazz Combo Master Class
on International Jazz Day, April 30,
Featuring Danilo Perez & The Berklee Global Jazz Institute

International Jazz Day Celebration includes a free performance for students from Pell, Thompson and Rogers Schools and free student workshops
at the Casino Theatre

NEWPORT, RI, APRIL 22, 2014 – Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc.™ (NFF), in collaboration with the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at Salve Regina University, will present two events with award-winning jazz pianist Danilo Perez and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute on International Jazz Day (IJD), Thursday, April 30. A concert for Newport public school students from Pell Elementary, Thompson Middle and Rogers High Schools is set for 10:00 – 11:00 am and a workshop for Jazz Combos will take place from 1:00 – 3:00 pm at the historic Casino Theatre, 9 Freebody Street in Newport.

JAZZ in the Valley - August 16th - Celebrate!

4/20/2015

Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

4/14/2015

JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS
50th ANNIVERSARY
at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 9
Presented by the Apollo Theater,
Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile

This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine

Media Contact:
Carolyn McClair / CMPR
(917) 686-0854 / [email protected]

“Harlem is a dream-place where so much important cultural history has been enacted that as we explore the power of Harlem’s past we also feel its presence. Take the M60-bus along 125th, or emerge from the A-train at 125th or 145th or from the 2 or 3 train at 125th or 135th—you enter a city-within-a-city that is pulsing with vivid, lived experiences. Behind these Harlem doors, some of the best music on the planet is being played.” Robert G. O’Meally, Columbia University Zora Neale Hurston Professor and Founder of Columbia University Jazz Studies

Jimmy Heath

HARLEM, USA, April 14, 2015 – Jazzmobile continues its 50th anniversary celebration May 4 – 9 at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, a week-long, multi-venue partnership with the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, in collaboration with Columbia University. The festival revives the spirits and sounds of Harlem’s historic jazz venues with swinging live performances, jam sessions, informative panel discussions, dance parties and more.

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Newport Jazz Festival Introduces App and Releases Daily Schedules

2015 Newport Jazz Festival Launches New App

Download Your App Today at Apple App Store or Google Play Store

Daily Schedules Also Available at www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

Vibraphonist Composer JAY HOGGARD @ Jazzmobile Grant's Tomb Park Wednesday, July 15

$55 Newport Jazz Festival® Discount Tickets End July 12; Festival Office Opens

$55 Newport Jazz Festival®
Discount Tickets End July 12

Newport Festivals Foundation’s
Middletown Office Is Now Open

Newport Jazz Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Miles Davis

George Wein Brings Storyville to Newport Jazz Festival

George Wein Brings Storyville to
Newport Jazz Festival®

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Boston University on Sunday

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate
at Boston University Commencement on
Sunday, May 17

MILES DAVIS AT NEWPORT 1955-1975: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 4 SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE JULY 17

Newport Festivals Foundation and Salve Regina University to Present Performance and Jazz Combo Master Class on International Jazz Day

JAZZ in the Valley - August 16th - Celebrate!

Jazzmobile & 2015 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS
50th ANNIVERSARY
at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 9
Presented by the Apollo Theater,
Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile

This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine

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2015 Newport Jazz Festival Launches New App Download Your App Today at Apple App Store or Google Play Store Daily Schedules Also Available at www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

$55 Newport Jazz Festival® Discount Tickets End July 12 Newport Festivals Foundation’s Middletown Office Is Now Open

George Wein Brings Storyville to Newport Jazz Festival®

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate at Boston University Commencement on Sunday, May 17

JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 9 Presented by the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine

Archives

Categories

2015 Newport Jazz Festival Launches New App

Download Your App Today at Apple App Store or Google Play Store

Daily Schedules Also Available at www.newportjazzfest.org/schedules

$55 Newport Jazz Festival®
Discount Tickets End July 12

Newport Festivals Foundation’s
Middletown Office Is Now Open

George Wein Brings Storyville to
Newport Jazz Festival®

George Wein to Receive Honorary Doctorate
at Boston University Commencement on
Sunday, May 17

JAZZMOBILE CONTINUES CELEBRATING ITS
50th ANNIVERSARY
at the Fifth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 4 – 9
Presented by the Apollo Theater,
Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile

This year the Festival will also pay tribute to the iconic Jazzmobile as a Shrine