Word: newport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next year," said Saxophonist Paul Desmond, "maybe they could arrange to have Eisenhower at the same time." Just about everybody else, it seemed, was on hand last week for the opening of the fifth and biggest Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival. The Duke was back for a Tribute-to-Ellington night; Benny Goodman was there for nostalgia. Trumpeter Miles Davis had declined this year's invitation: "What, me dig that crazy scene? Never!" But he too was there last week-along with Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and a clutch of others-because the "crazy scene...
...Works. Special feature of this year's festival was the 17-man International Youth Band, recruited and trained by High School Music Director Marshall Brown, whose Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School Band was a Newport hit last year (TIME, July 15, 1957). Assigned to look for one young musician to represent each European country, Brown took a year's leave from his teaching job, toured Europe listening to nearly 700 musicians...
Full Sphere. Last year's festival, the most successful ever, netted $50,000 (including $5,000 to establish a free clinic for narcotics-addicted jazzmen). The 1958 festival is almost certain to clear even more than that. But as Newport's popularity with the public soars, its reputation among jazzmen is declining. They regard it as a giant public relations carnival-"a jazz supermarket," Trumpeter Davis calls it. Saxophonist Desmond feels that Newport is all right "for the young fellows just getting started," but that established stars "have nothing specially to gain, and the critics present can give...
Most important alibi of all was the weather: Sceptre had lost to Evaine in light airs and in sheltered waters. She was designed to be at her best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...
Repriever. In Newport. Ark., a bulldog just freed from the city pound tunneled his way back into the enclosure, helped open the way to escape for seven other dogs who were digging from the inside...