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...went on one of the best nights of this year's Newport Jazz Festival. The greatest of all such festivals, Newport celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with more than 100 performers in an all-star salute to the history of jazz. From out of the Dixieland past stomped "Kid" Thomas, 82, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Transplanted for an evening from New Orleans' French Quarter, the group played engagingly oldfashioned, banjo-accented favorites and clowned between the numbers...
...quite as soulful a gathering as in the old days, when the festival was held in Newport, R.I.-out in the fields, where a wailing sax could carry a mile...
...holiday weekend looks like a great one for jazz fans--if you have wheels and a little money to spare. First off is the Newport Jazz Festival, which for the first time in several years is actually taking place in Newport, R.I., not New York. The nation's most famous jazz festival returns home Saturday for a brief three-day stint that will feature some of the biggest and best names in the business Among the acts, you'll be able to see Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and George Benson, with many more of equal stature...
...Newport Jazz Festival--At the Fort Adams State Park, Newport, R.I., Saturday through Monday at 6. Tickets...
...schedule, and relations between the service and its major suppliers have sunk to their lowest point in many decades. The Navy, in fact, has been slapped with claims demanding $2.7 billion in payment for cost overruns by the nation's major shipbuilders?General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, Tenneco's Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries...