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 Quotable JazzJazz & Blues Sheet Music Standards Chords Jazz Guitar Scales  DVD Series Free Shipping | Newport Jazz Festival The Newport Jazz Festival was inspired by Elaine Lorillard (1914-2007) and founded by Jazz pianist George Wein in 1954 as the first outdoor music festival of its kind devoted entirely to Jazz, and is now universally acknowledged as the grandfather of all Jazz festivals. During the last half-century, the name Newport has become synonymous with the best in Jazz music. In its long illustrious history, the Newport Jazz Festival has presented a virtual pantheon of Jazz immortals alongside an array of rising young artists. From an event "fashioned out of orange crates and baling wire," as critic Whitney Balliett once colorfully recalled, the Newport Jazz Festival has evolved into an institution of immeasurable influence and international reach. The JVC family of Jazz festivals, including the Newport Jazz Festival, represents the longest-running and most far-reaching series of sponsored music events in history. Over the past twenty four years, JVC has sponsored over 117 major Jazz festivals to live audiences of over three-and-a-half million people. The JVC International Jazz Festival Program started in 1984 and has continued around the globe without pause ever since. The festivals have presented over 40,000 individual musicians. However in the economic downturn of 2009, JVC ceased its sponsorship of all Jazz festival events with this announcement: "JVC is proud of its association with the Jazz Festivals, but the marketplace in which JVC competes today has changed dramatically, and so JVC has chosen to take our promotional activities in a different direction, and one that will no longer include Jazz event sponsorship."
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