The Newport Jazz Festival - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Jazz Podcast

This week's episode of WNPM is about the Newport Jazz Festival, which has taken place every summer in Newport, Rhode Island since it was founded in 1954.  It starts with the performance of Round Midnight that catapulted Miles Davis into (further) stardom, and continues with my selections of some of the best performances I've come across recorded at the festival, including songs by Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Misha Mengleberg, and many more.  The last set of songs is from Charles Mingus' performances at Newport, along with one song from a record called Newport Rebels, which features musicians who joined Mingus at the alternative festival that Mingus arranged to compete with the Newport Festival, on the same weekend as and across town from the 1960 festival. 

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I'm a lover of jazz music and have spend the last 20 years digging through record crates at the record stores, yard sales, swap meets, etc, in the Los Angeles area, and want to share some of the great jazz I've discovered along the way. Most episodes are focused on a single jazz artist, some are focused on various jazz styles, to point others in the right direction when it comes to finding out about great jazz