Newport Jazz Festival Information
The Newport Jazz Festival is a summertime American multi-day jazz music event in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1954, Elaine Lorillard and her husband, Louis Lorillard, began supporting the festival financially. George Wein was engaged to bring jazz to Rhode Island and arrange the inaugural festival.
Voice of America radio carried most of the first festivals, and several performances were recorded and later published as CDs. By 1972, New York City had replaced Newport as the site of the Newport Jazz Festival. Returning to Newport in 1981 while still doing well in New York, it became a two-site festival.
The event was once known as the JVC Jazz Festival from 1984 to 2008; however, due to the economic crisis in 2009, JVC stopped supporting the festival, and CareFusion took its place.
In Newport, Fort Adams State Park is where the festival is held. On several occasions, it coincides with the Newport Folk Festival. After the event's owner ran into financial trouble in 2009, Wein took over operations again. The Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals have been run by the nonprofit Newport Festivals Foundation, which Wein founded in 2011.
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