The Newport Jazz Festival - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Jazz Podcast

This week's episode of WNPM is about the Newport Jazz Festival, which has taken place every summer in Newport, Rhode Island since it was founded in 1954.  It starts with the performance of Round Midnight that catapulted Miles Davis into (further) stardom, and continues with my selections of some of the best performances I've come across recorded at the festival, including songs by Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Misha Mengleberg, and many more.  The last set of songs is from Charles Mingus' performances at Newport, along with one song from a record called Newport Rebels, which features musicians who joined Mingus at the alternative festival that Mingus arranged to compete with the Newport Festival, on the same weekend as and across town from the 1960 festival.