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Contributor Archives: Bill Milkowski
Newport Jams at Radio City
Three new sets recorded at Radio City Music Hall for the 1974 Newport Jazz Festival showcase some fantastic jam sessions featuring Charles Mingus, four of the best drummers ever, and Clark Terry.
Newport at Central Park, 1973
After the notorious gate-crashing incident of 1971 -- in which hordes of young people (some estimated their numbers near 10,000) folded over a 35-foot-wide section of fence and bum-rushed Festival Field shouting, “Music should be free!” -- George Wein’s annual summer clambake was essentially finished at the idyllic resort community of Newport.
$4 Download Deal: Jimmy Smith Trio
The undisputed heavyweight champion of the Hammond B-3 organ, Smith's July 4th appearance at the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival on a Saturday afternoon was typically burning. Download it for only $4 today and follow the Hammond B-3 to places it had never been before.
Satchmo and Diz Reign at Newport ‘60
Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet kings from different generations – combined to lift spirits on a rainy Friday evening, the second day of the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival.
Newport ‘60: Jazz, Blues …Riots
On the last day of 1960 Newport Jazz author Langston Hughes convened a group of prominent blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Otis Spann and James Cotton, to present the blues at what was feared to be the last Newport festival.
The Best Year Ever!
Was there ever a greater year in jazz than 1959? Looking back 50 years at the prolific and profound output of that special year, it gives one pause. How could so much genius bubble up at one time? Was it some kind of magical harmonic convergence that made that particular year so spectacular? Did all [...]
Digging Deep in the Vault
There is a whole complex myriad of procedures and problem-solving to undertake before sound files of classic rock, blues, folk and jazz performances ultimately get posted to the Wolfgang’s Vault website. And whether the archival tapes come from the Fillmore West in San Francisco, the Ashgrove nightclub in Los Angeles or the Newport Jazz Festival [...]
1955: It Was a Very Good Year
One of my first big assignments in dealing with this massive Newport Jazz Festival archives that Wolfgang's Vault has acquired will be to write concert summaries on the 1955 edition of of that fabled outdoor summer festival in Rhode Island. That's going way back (I was one year old at the time). America was certainly a very different place back then. Chevy V-8s ruled the road, Cadillacs had tail fins, Thunderbirds were strictly convertible. That year, General Motors became the first American corporation to make over $1 billion in a year, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person and James Baldwin published "Notes of a Native Son."
Drummer DeJohnette Branches Out at GAMH