It’s a gloomy day at Newport It’s a gloomy, gloomy day. The music’s going away. When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he “bawled like ...

In 1956, Langston Hughes appeared at a symposium during the Newport Jazz Festival. He would return regularly, and in 1960, Hughes hosted and curated a blues conversation and concert that found him ...

*(New York, NY) Miles Davis’ 20-year association as an artist at impresario George Wein’s renowned Newport Jazz Festival is a thriving tradition that will be celebrated with the release of Miles Davis ...

The very first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 included London-born pianist George Shearing. The next year, his fellow British pianist — and future NPR host — Marian McPartland was on the bill. More ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Since 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival has been drawing thousands of people to the City by the Sea. The festival was founded by George Wein, a pianist from Massachusetts who ...

Christian McBride, photo by Evelyn Freja The Newport Festivals Foundation has announced Christian McBride’s resignation as Artistic Director of the ...