Performers
Include Chick Corea, Gregory Porter, Angélique Kidjo, Robert
Glasper, Charles Lloyd, Kamasi Washington, Django Festival All Stars, Galactic,
John Scofield/Joe Lovano, JoséJames, Steve Coleman, Darcy James
Argue, Mary Halvorson, Monty Alexander, Kneebody, Kenny
Barron, The Bad Plus, Christian Scott and Many More
With last year's highly-celebrated festival behind him,
George Wein, Festival producer and chairman of the Newport Festivals
Foundation, Inc.™, today announced the lineup for the 2016 Newport Jazz
Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which will again take
place in Newport, RI, July 29 - 31 at historic Fort Adams State Park and the
International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino.
This year's
festival includes a wide variety of jazz, "from ragtime piano to the most
progressive innovations from the minds of today's young musicians," says
Wein, who has produced the festival since its inception in 1954. "The
Newport Jazz Festival is quite different from other jazz festivals around the
world. With multiple stages of music each day, we are able to present a panoply
of the world of jazz. Having the opportunity to utilize the creativity of more
than 50 different artists means that we can present every style of jazz."
The 2016
edition of America's first annual jazz fest will feature 22-time Grammy-winning
jazz composer Chick Corea, celebrating his 75th birthday at both the Tennis
Hall of Fame and Fort Adams. Also doing double duty are Grammy-winning vocalist
Gregory Porter and saxophonist Kamasi Washington, in his festival debut. Others
making their debut appearances are the New Orleans' seminal funk band Galactic,
vocalist Tierney Sutton, the brass quartet The Westerlies, The Hot Sardines;
the supergroup Potter, Holland, Loueke & Harland; and pianists Rossano
Sportiello, Kris Davis and Terry Waldo.
Among the
more than 50 musicians/bands appearing are Angélique Kidjo; John Scofield/Joe
Lovano Quartet; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society; Charles Lloyd New Quartet;
Robert Glasper Experiment; Django Festival All Stars; Kenny Barron Trio;
Yosvanny Terry Quintet; Toshiko Akiyoshi; Steve Coleman and Five Elements;
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Presents Stretch Music; José James; Kneebody and
many others.
Leading new
ensembles or presenting new projects are Eric Revis Parallax; The Bad Plus
performs Ornette Coleman's landmark 1972 album Science Fiction; Monty Alexander
Harlem-Kingston Express; Edmar Castañeda World Ensemble; Butler, Bernstein
& The Hot 9; Stefon Harris Sonic Creed; Dave Liebman Expansions Group and
Anat Cohen's Clarinet Re-Imagined.
Along with
jazz superstars and Grammy winners galore, emerging artists will also have the
chance to participate at the festival, particularly on Friday at Fort Adams.
New compositions funded with support from the George Wein/Doris Duke Artistic
Programming Fund will be presented by Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler, Tyshawn Sorey
& Alloy, Sullivan Fortner Quartet and Ben Williams & Sound Effect.
Students from around New England will be well represented with appearances by
the URI Big Band, various Berklee College of Music bands and the all-state
bands from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In addition, the festival welcomes a
recipient of The ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards.
Newport
Festivals Foundation will again host THE Jazz Club, a special experience
offered on Saturday and Sunday at Fort Adams. The option includes special
seating, reserved parking, tented lounge access, upgraded restroom facilities
and a Festival poster.
The lineup
for the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management is
as follows:
Friday, July
29, 2016 8:00 pm
International
Tennis Hall of Fame, 194 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840
Gregory
Porter: Gregory Porter, Chip Crawford, Emanuel Harrold, Jahmal Nichols
Chick Corea
Trilogy: Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade
Friday, July
29, 2016, 11:00 am - 6:30pm
Fort Adams
State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Galactic, Kamasi
Washington, Kneebody:
Adam Benjamin, Shane Endsley, Kaveh Rastegar, Ben Wendel, Nate Wood, Peter
Apfelbaum's Sparkler: Peter Apfelbaum, Natalie Cressman, Jill Ryan, Will Bernard,
Kyle Sanna, Charlie Ferguson, Tierney
Sutton: "After Blue" The Joni Mitchell Project: Tierney Sutton, Mark Summer,
Serge Merlaud
Steve
Coleman and Five Elements: Steve Coleman, Jonathan Finlayson, Maria Grand,
Miles Okazaki, Anthony Tidd, Sean Rickman, Tyshawn
Sorey & Alloy: Tyshawn Sorey, Corey Smythe, Chris Tordini, Sullivan
Fortner Quartet: Sullivan Fortner, Tivon Pennicott, Aidan Carroll, Joe Dyson, Eric Revis
Parallax: Eric Revis, Ken Vandermark, Kris Davis, Nasheet Waits, URI Newport
Big Band, Under the Direction of Jared Simsm And More ...
Saturday,
July 30, 2016, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Fort Adams
State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Chick Corea
Trilogy: Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade, Gregory
Porter: Gregory Porter, Chip Crawford, Emanuel Harrold, Jahmal Nichols, Angelique
Kidjo: Angelique Kidjo, Dominic James, Magatte Sow, Benjamin Zwerin, Yayo Serka, The Bad Plus
performs Ornette Coleman's SCIENCE FICTION: Reid Anderson, Ethan
Iverson, David King, Tim Berne, Ron Miles, Sam Newsome, Ron Miles, Darcy James
Argue's Secret Society
John
Scofield/Joe Lovano Quartet: John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Ben Street, Bill Stewart
Monty
Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express: Monty Alexander, Hassan Shakur, Obed
Calvaire, Andy Bassford, Joshua Thomas, Karl Wright, Edmar
Castañeda World Ensemble: Edmar Castañeda, Andrea Tierra, Grégoire
Maret, Itai Kriss, Marshall Gilkes, Shlomi Cohen, Pablo Vergara, David
Silliman, Rodrigo Villalon, Butler,
Bernstein & The Hot 9: Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein, Curtis Fowlkes, Charlie
Burnham, Doug Wieselman, Peter Apfelbaum, Erik Lawrence, Matt Munisteri, Brad
Jones, Donald Edwards, The Hot
Sardines: Miz Elizabeth, Evan "Bibs" Palazzo, "Fast Eddy"
Francisco, Jason
Prover, Mike Sailors, Nick Myers, Evan "Sugar" Crane, Alex Raderman, Stefon
Harris Sonic Creed: Stefon Harris, James Francies, Elena Pinderhughes, Mike Moreno,
Joshua Crumbly, Jonathan Pinson
Dave Liebman
Expansions Group: Dave Liebman, Matt Vashlishan, Bobby Avey,
Tony Marino,
Alex Ritz, Henry Butler
(solo piano), Kris Davis
(solo piano), Mary
Halvorson (solo guitar), Terry Waldo
(solo piano), The ASCAP
Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Recipient, RI Music
Educators Association Sr. All-State Jazz Ensemble, And More ...
Saturday,
July 30, 2016, 7:30 pm
Location TBD
Newport
Festivals Foundation Fundraiser/Gala
Sunday, July
31, 2016, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Fort Adams
State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Charles
Lloyd New Quartet: Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, Rueben Rogers, Eric Harland,
José James:
José James, Takeshi Obayashi, Solomon Dorsey, Nate Smith, Potter,
Holland, Loueke & Harland: Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland, Robert Glasper
Experiment, Anat Cohen's
Clarinet Re-Imagined, Kamasi
Washington, Christian
Scott aTunde Adjuah Presents Stretch Music, Django
Festival All Stars: Samson Schmitt, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, DouDou
Cuillerier, Brian Torff, Kenny Barron
Trio: Kenny Barron, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Yosvany
Terry Quintet: Yosvany Terry, Michael Rodriguez, Osmany Paredes, Yunior
Terry, Obed Calvaire, Ben Williams
& Sound Effect: Ben Williams, Gilad Hekselman, Christian Sands, Toshiko
Akiyoshi (solo piano), Rossano
Sportiello (solo piano), The
Westerlies: Riley Mulherkar, Zubin Hensler, Andy Clausen, Willem de Koch, MA Music
Educators Association All-State Jazz Band, And More ...
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