Wein, a jazz-pianist-turned-impresario, came up with the idea for the festival after Newport socialite Elaine Lorillard complained to him that the summer scene in the tony resort with its Gilded Age ...
On July 17, 1954 Impresario George Wein opened the gates to the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and changed the face of jazz arena presentation for the second half of the Twentieth Century ...
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 ...
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