Word: newports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with harmonies and tempi, bounce themes to the fluid clarinet, trade solos with the limpid trumpet. Underneath it all is a rock-solid bass. Last week the boys wound up with Long Ago and Far Away and a driving Summertime. The palazzo shivered, and the audience applauded. "An intellectual Newport," said a delighted U.S. composer as he made his way from the hall...
...Music in Newport, the Jazz Festival in everything but name, presents a big weekend of music over the Fourth. (Freebody park in Newport, R.I.--VI 7-3095 in Newport). Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Ramsey Lewis, Maynard Ferguson, Cannonball Adderly, and Carmen McRae are on the first night, June 30. Count Basic, Chico Hamilton, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Gloria Lynn, and Slife Hampton Perform July 1: Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, the Jazztet, George Shearing, and Eddie Harris take over Sunday
...Virtues & New. As the years passed, Newport-like any limited-industry town-hustled to keep up with the times. Newporters claim that the pari-mutuel machine was developed there. Gamblers from coast to coast discovered that Newport was a place where they could "lay off" their bets (i.e., get well-heeled Newport gamblers who would cover all or parts of bets too big for the ordinary bookie to handle). Some 45 phone lines run into the Tropicana Club, where the layoff headquarters is in Room 315. One bar accepts as much as $75,000 a day in layoff bets alone...
...Newport's take from gambling and other forms of assorted vice now amounts to $25 million a year. Though the price has soared to $20, prostitution is still so common that bartenders seldom go through the formality of selling a customer a drink, merely shrug: "The girls are upstairs." A man can still lose his wad in the gambling joints that wink with neon along York and Monmouth Streets and glow softly in the bottom land down by the river. And though three whorehouses Lave recently flourished within a block of the station house, Newport's police still...
Attempted Pass? Of course, Newport has its share of reform-minded citizens. Inevitably, they have launched many a reform movement-with little success. "The reformers don't stay around here," says Lawyer Daniel W. Davies. "They catch too much hell from the merchants. Everybody expects a little gambling, a little vice. Everybody's liberal around here...