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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...
...atmosphere of the Newport Jazz Festival is unique. Jazz especially modern jazz, is usually played indoors, in a big city, before a small audience. At Newport, the musicians perform under an open sky; the town itself is technically a city, but it is suburban in feeling; and the audiences are huge. In addition, the festival is as much a social event as a musical one for the performers, most of whom know each other. The whole affair has something of the spirit of a great big family reunion in the country. When Clark Terry steps out on the stage...
...other hand, the Newport Jazz Festival exposes large numbers of people outside the urban hip crowd to good live jazz. It employs scores of musicians, many of whom really need the money. And if the setting and tone of the Festival tends to make the musicians exuberant rather than reflective, so what? Good music is good music whatever the mood...
...Festival covered four days--Thursday to Sunday, July 4-7--and took place in Freebody Park, an athletic field between the business center of Newport and its beaches. The four evening concerts, pretty much limitel to big-name stars, were the main attraction, with three varied afternoon programs thrown in for seasoning...
...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...