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2. Newport Jazz Festival - Wikipedia

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   In 1972, festival producer George Wein transplanted the festival to New York City, calling it the Newport Jazz Festival-New York. An expanded format involved multiple venues, including Yankee Stadium and Radio City Music Hall , and comprised 30 concerts with 62 performers including Dave Brubeck , Ray Charles , Duke Ellington , Roberta Flack ...

3. New Orleans Jazz Fest 2024 kicks off Thursday and The Rolling ...

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   The Stones play next Thursday, May 2, tickets for which have long been sold out. It looks like the third time is the charm as the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival prepares, again, for The ...

4. One month out, New Orleans Jazz Fest begins preparations for ...

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   The Fair Grounds Race Course, which plays host to the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, begins its annual transformation in earnest Tuesday as organizers prepare to take over the field ...

5. Herbie Hancock, Thundercat, Jon Batiste Lead to Newport Jazz ...

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   Herbie Hancock, Thundercat, and Jon Batiste lead a powerhouse lineup for the annual Newport Jazz Festival, which will celebrate its 69th anniversary on Aug. 4-6 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport ...

6. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Wikipedia

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   The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that presents the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The foundation was formed in 1970 as the festival's nonprofit arm. Festival founders George Wein, Quint Davis and Allison Miner trusted that Jazz Fest would be a success, despite a slow start in ticket sales.

7. George Wein - Wikipedia

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   Wein was subsequently instrumental in the founding of a number of festivals in other cities, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, [13] and the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, and established the Newport Folk Festival. [4] [11] In the 1960s he set up Festival Productions, a company dedicated to promoting large-scale jazz ...

8. Queen Latifah, Jon Batiste among 2024 New Orleans Jazz Fest ...

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   Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fantasia and Big Freedia set to take the Jazz Fest […] The post Queen Latifah, Jon Batiste among 2024 New Orleans Jazz Fest headliners ...

9. List of jazz festivals - Wikipedia

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   The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.