To anyone who remembers Newport at its less than maximum violence, this view of what the boys and girls do in the springtime before they wing north for the Jazz Festival ought to prove entertaining.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

The Jazz Three displayed their sound musicianship, not only in their own chosen set, but as the emergency accompanists for Al Minns & Leon James, the superb jazz dancers who have now been Newport performers for three successive years, gradually moving up from a morning seminar on the evolution of the blues to a spot on the evening program.

He enjoyed jamming with fellow studio musicians which led to them being asked to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960.

Back in New York and in better health, in 1955 Davis attended the Newport Jazz Festival, where his performance ( and especially his solo on "' Round Midnight ") was greatly admired and prompted the critics to hail the " return of Miles Davis ".

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956 returned him to wider prominence and exposed him to new audiences.

Dolphy appears with Hamilton's band in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day playing flute during the Newport Jazz Festival ' 58.

Newport plays host to a number of festivals during the summer months, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Sunset Music Festival, the Newport Folk Festival ( where Bob Dylan infamously " went electric " in 1965 ), the Newport International Film Festival, and the Newport International Boat Show.

Fort Adams, an historical fort dating back to the War of 1812 houses the Museum of Yachting and hosts both the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival annually.

Jazz on a Summer's Day ( 1960 ) is a documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, filmed and directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie.

As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport ( 1963 ), Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both recorded in 1964, the latter not being released until 1982.

Appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival with her in 1958 which was filmed and the 1954 live studio audience recording of Dinah Jams, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked vocal jazz albums of its genre.

In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.

Anita O ' Day at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

* 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

His performance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival saw his star rise amongst the new folk revival audience.

In 2005, the band made appearances at festivals including Lollapalooza, " T on the Fringe ", and the Newport Folk Festival.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

* July 25 – Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by " going electric " at the Newport Folk Festival.

Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.

Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, where the two sang two duets, " Virgin Mary Had One Son " and " We Are Crossing Jordan River ".

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival.

Jim Kweskin # Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1963 Newport Folk Festival ; Photo © John Byrne Cooke

These one-hit wonders even made an appearance at that year's Newport Folk Festival before fading into obscurity.

* Newport Folk Festival, also sometimes referred to as simply Newport

However, extensive work by Carla Hudson-Kam and Elissa Newport suggests that creole languages may not support a universal grammar, as has sometimes been supposed.

The term Severnside is sometimes used as a substitute for " Avon ", although the term can also be used to refer to the stretch of shoreline from Avonmouth north to Aust, or from Newport to Chepstow.

The village is sometimes seen as being isolated, but it is only a 30 minute drive from Cardiff, 45 minutes from Swansea and 45 minutes from Newport.

By the late 17th century, the electorate of the three seats comprised the resident freemen of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 the constituency was generally referred to as the Monmouth Boroughs.

The Newport congregation, now referred to as Congregation Jeshuat Israel, is the second oldest Jewish congregation in the United States and meets in the oldest standing synagogue in the United States, Touro Synagogue.

Newport is also commonly, but technically inaccurately, referred to as being located in the Midwest.

The Balboa Peninsula ( also referred to as " Balboa ") is a neighborhood of the city of Newport Beach, Orange County, California.

The opening line ' Libraries gave us power ' was inspired by the legend above the entrance to the former Pillgwenlly Library in Newport, near the band's home town of Blackwood in Wales: ' Knowledge is Power ', whilst the phrase ' then work came and made us free ' refers to the German slogan Arbeit macht frei that featured above the gates of most of the Nazi concentration camps and which was earlier referred to by the band on " The Intense Humming of Evil " from The Holy Bible.

Newport has a very striking railway bridge ( no longer used for rail carriage ) like an aqueduct which is commonly referred to as " The Viaduct ", which, with the Roman Catholic church on top of the hill, dominate the town and create a picturesque appearance.

St. Patrick's Catholic Church, built in 1914 in the Irish Romanesque style by Rudolph M. Butler is so imposing that it is usually referred to as ' Newport Cathedral '.

Commonly referred to locally as ' the Valleys ', they stretch from eastern Carmarthenshire in the west to western Monmouthshire in the east and from the Heads of the Valleys in the north to the lower-lying, pastoral country of the Vale of Glamorgan and the coastal plain around Swansea Bay, Bridgend, the capital Cardiff, and Newport.

Stores of gunpowder — typically referred to by Loyalists as " the King's powder " and by Patriots as " the militia's powder "— were also carried off from forts in Newport, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, and New London, Connecticut and distributed to the militias in towns away from the coast.

The bridge was renamed for U. S. Senator Claiborne Pell in 1992, but it is still commonly referred to as the Newport Bridge by residents and historians.

The ward is the site of the City of Newport Campus for Coleg Gwent ( commonly referred to as ' Nash College ') and the Newport International Sports Village.

It is occasionally referred to as Newport-juxta-Launceston to distinguish it from other constituencies named Newport.

Most likely, when " The Ferguson Center " is mentioned outside of Christopher Newport University, this is what is being referred to.

Collis P. Huntington High School, commonly referred to as just Huntington High School ( opened in 1927 ) was a black high school located in the East End section of Newport News, Virginia, USA during the era of racial segregation.