Newport Jazz Festival
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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 L
McCoy Tyner and Ravi Coltrane perform at the Newport Jazz Festival on August 13, 2005.
Dizzy Gillespie
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but ad
Gillespie in 1946
Gillespie in a publicity photo (c. 1955)
Gillespie (left) with John Lewis, Cecil Payne, Miles Davis, and Ray Brown, between 1946 and 1948
Gillespie performing in 1959