Word: newports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played and heard in many different settings. Jazz has made itself at home in riverboats, funeral marches, saloons, churches, furnished rooms and baseball parks. In recent times jazz musicians have most often worked in recording studios, concert halls, and nightclubs both boisterous and quiet. And, of course, at the Newport Jazz Festival and the crop of festivals that have sprung up in imitation...
...NEWPORT, R.I., July 4--Sen. Claiborne Pell (D.R.I.) will make the welcoming address here tonight before the opening concert of the tenth annual Newport Jazz Festival. The four-day festival, the largest jazz event in the country, is expected to draw more than 8000 fans to Freebody Park...
...said Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, in a lecture this month to the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. Enthoven (rhymes with went rov-in') was certainly right about one thing: when he starts submitting defense policy to his dispassionate, cold analysis, generals explode and admirals shiver their timbers. For of all Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's famed Pentagon whiz kids, Enthoven, at 32, is by far the whizziest...
Together they founded the Newport Jazz Festival, but togetherness and all that jazz have gone up in smoke for Elaine Lorillard, divorced first wife of Tobacco Heir Louis Lorillard. In Middletown, R.I., Elaine and her two teen-aged children by Louis were evicted from their rented Paradise Farm home. Louis had let the lease lapse. Mrs. Lorillard further complains that her $700 monthly support payments have dwindled to a mere $100 a month, and she can't locate her husband, who at one point last year got the electricity turned off, plunging Paradise into darkness...
Solal's American visit (six weeks at the Hickory House and a spot at the Newport Jazz Festival) is a tardy reward for a quietly brilliant career. He grew up in Algiers and first heard jazz when the G.I. radio followed soon after the American landings. For years he struggled to play precisely like Art Tatum, but when he came to Paris in 1950, he took off on his own. "I should try to make music that has much to say," he resolved, and with that he started serious study...