0:32JOHN BETSCH Drummer American
Newport Jazz Festival, John Thomas, Ride, Max Roach
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Rare tour footage of Newport Jazz Festival, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
Tour footage captures the rhythm of life on the road — the shows, the travel, the downtime, the rituals, and the relationships that form when musicians spend months together in close quarters. These clips document a way of life that has changed dramatically across the decades.
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island.
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