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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 ".
* Miles & Monk at Newport ( 1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance )
The live album Miles Davis at Newport 1958 documents this band.
However, the Newport Jazz Festival recording on July 3, 1958 reflects the band in its hard bop conception, the presence of a Bill Evans only six weeks into his brief tenure in the Davis band notwithstanding, rather than the modal approach of Kind of Blue.
Miles Davis, who had performed the title track of his album Walkin ' at the inaugural Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, would form the Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane in 1955, becoming prominent in hard bop before moving on to other styles.
Other early documents were the two volumes of the Blue Note albums A Night at Birdland, also from 1954, recorded by the Jazz Messengers at Birdland months before the Davis set at Newport.
Davis may be heard playing on the 1973 CBS album Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival Live at Carnegie Hall on the song " Young Man with a Horn ".
Sets by Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, and Miles Davis at that year's festival appeared respectively on the albums Newport 1958, Ray Charles at Newport, and At Newport 1958.
Tony's captaincy is remembered by his frustration in dealing with the egos of younger players like John McEnroe, and for his racket-wielding expulsion of an apartheid protest demonstrator during a Davis Cup match against South Africa at the Newport Beach Tennis Club in California in April 1977.
During the summer of 1883 Miss Davis ( under the management of James Monroe Trotter and William H Dupree ) made a tour of Boston, Worcester, and New Bedford, Massachusetts ; Providence and Newport, Rhode Island ; Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut ; and New York City, Albany and Saratoga, New York.
The Newport Jazz Festival began in 1954 by George Wein and has been documented on recordings by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Vaughn was a featured performer at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, opening for Miles Davis.

Newport and had
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
Certainly not the largest afternoon audience Newport has ever had at a jazz concert and the most attentive and quiet.
She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.
On 19 July 2007, the Newport Pagnell plant rolled out its last car, a Vanquish S. Nearly 13, 000 cars had been made there since 1955.
They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.
Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of the C & O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896.
Giuliani's high-profile raid of the Princeton / Newport firm ended with the defendants having their cases overturned on appeal on the grounds that what they had been convicted of were not crimes .< ref >
By the end of the 1930s, Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores, including resort locations such as Sun Valley, Mount Stowe, and Newport.
Upon learning that de Grasse had sailed from the West Indies for North America, and that French Admiral de Barras had also sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Graves concluded that they were going to join forces at the Chesapeake.
De Grasse had notified his counterpart in Newport, the Comte de Barras Saint-Laurent, of his intentions and his planned arrival date.
One notable effort by " Providence Plantations " ( Providence and Warwick ) during the time when Coddington had separated " Rhode Island " ( Newport and Portsmouth ) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law which attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony.
If nothing else, Roger Williams had gathered and resigned from the Providence church before the town of Newport was even founded.
Within fourteen years of Lopez ’ activity, Newport had 150 vessels engaged in trade.
In 1764, Rhode Island had about 30 rum distilleries, 22 in Newport alone.
In the fall of 1776, the British, seeing that Newport could be used as a naval base to attack New York ( which they had recently occupied ) took over the city.
The population of Newport had divided loyalties and many pro independence " Patriots " left town while loyalist " Tories " remained.
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.
In 1896, the new incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the county seat of Warwick County, had a population of 9, 000.
The area which formed the present-day southern end of Newport News had long been established as an unincorporated town.
The completion of Interstate 664 restored the area to access and through traffic which had been largely rerouted with the completion of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in 1958 and discontinuance of the Newport News-Norfolk ferry service at that time.

Newport and met
He was met with derisive booing and jeering from the festival's purist folk music crowd, but in the years since the incident, Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival appearance has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in the synthesis of folk and rock.
In September 1842, a session of the Rhode Island General Assembly met at Newport, Rhode Island, and framed a new state constitution, which was ratified by the old, limited electorate, was proclaimed by Governor King on January 23, 1843, and took effect in May.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s Newport County were local rivals but the teams have not met in the same league for many years.
When they met in Newport, Summer acted cold towards him.
He had already met Jon Lee in Newport who moved down afterwards.
A fellow Turkish émigré, Nesuhi was the brother of Ahmet Ertegün, Atlantic's co-founder and a jazz enthusiast when they met at the Newport Jazz Festival.
While at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach in 1960, he met and taught Dale Jensen.
As plans solidified, the General Assembly met the following month in Newport and elected Samuel Ward and Stephen Hopkins as delegates to the congress.
The couple met at a ball in Newport, Rhode Island, in August 1916 and soon fell in love, although the alliance, between the modest, old-money Roosevelts and the flamboyantly wealthy Vanderbilt-Whitneys was at first controversial on both sides.
During one summer's stay at Newport, Rhode Island, Richards met Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke of Harvard, who showed the young boy Saturn's rings through a small telescope.
He also met his future wife in Newport.
Coddington spent nearly three years in England, and while there he met and married Ane Brinley, the daughter of Thomas Brinley, and sister of Francis Brinley who settled in Newport in 1652 and built a large structure that later became the White Horse Tavern.
Sam moved to Newport to attend college, but lost his conditional scholarship and had to drop out, after which point he met and befriended Fuzzy.
On February 3, 1865, near Fort Monroe in Newport News, Virginia, aboard a ship, the River Queen, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, representing the United States government, met with Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell, representing the Confederate States of America ( CSA ).
Abenaki groups met seasonally on the bluffs at Eagle Point in Newport, Vermont, to catch and dry whitefish.
With nowhere else to go, he moves in with Ryan and the Cohens, during which time he also met and became friendly with Marissa Cooper, who attempts to help him settle in Newport Beach.
In the US, while covering the 1974 America's Cup at Newport, Rhode Island, Akerman met his wife, Suzanne, a solicitor.
Codman also opened offices in Newport, Rhode Island as early as 1891, and it was in Newport that he first met novelist Edith Wharton.
While still in the Navy, Charles met and married Ana Rogers Case, the daughter of Rear Admiral Augustus Ludlow Case ; the couple were wed in 1875 in Newport, Rhode Island.

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