Word: newports
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Somewhat more exotic--and definitely more avant garde--is the full-dress Jazz Festival that will take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week (July 5-7) at Newport, Rhode Island, about a two-hour drive to the south. The Festival consists of concerts, seminars, workshops, and the like, and annually attracts a host of jazz celebrities in addition to thousands of enthusiastic fans...
...Newport event this year will feature, besides its pure-bred jazz performers, the music of a new convert named Friedrich Gulda. Gulda is a classical pianist from Austria--about the best Beethoven pianist now extant--who has decided to devote half of his musical time to jazz, and who will introduce some of his own jazz compositions at the Festival...
...series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda gather his combo in the U.S., got him booked into Birdland and also for Newport's American Jazz Festival next week...
...pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked for a two-week engagement in June in Manhattan's jazz den, Birdland, and the Newport Jazz Festival (July...
Grace has already awarded construction contracts on two of the ships to Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. The two will be 19,238-ton, 308-passenger, air-conditioned liners to replace Grace's Sartta Rosa and Santa Paula. Cost: $22,540,000 apiece, of which the Maritime Board will put up $9,485,000, the difference between U.S. and foreign construction costs...