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“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 1, 1978)

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by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, July 3, 1978

The Newport Jazz Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary, debuted at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saturday to the enthusiastic cheers of a large, but …

“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 1, 1978)

Newport Festival Plays Its Jazziest at Season Finale

by Cliff Smith, Rochester Times-Union, July 3, 1978

The Newport Jazz Festival, honored on its silver anniversary two weeks ago with a concert on the White House lawn, closed out this weekend …

“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 1, 1978)

A two-day jazz festival brings Newport to Saratoga

by Stephen A. Monroe, Democrat and Chronicle, July 3, 1978

In the heat of the afternoon Saturday, orange, yellow and white frisbees spun through the air under a perfect blue sky …

“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 1, 1978)

Two-day Newport Festival at SPAC is a smashing success

by Kyle Hughes, Bennington Banner, July 5, 1978

The day before the Newport Jazz Festival marathon began last Saturday, a still-live pipe bomb was discovered by a Saratoga Performing Arts …

Herbie Mann / Joe Farrell @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 20, 1975)

Good Jazz Featured At Festival

by Georgia Urban, The Times Record, June 25, 1975

Not all of the music was of the highest caliber, but there was some good jazz offered at Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Second Annual Upstate Jazz …

Herbie Mann / Joe Farrell @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 20, 1975)

Mann kicks off SPAC jazzfest

by Shelley Riley, The Saratogian

The magical flute of Herbie Mann filled the chilly night air at SPAC Friday as the Upstate Jazz Festival, a three-day jam session of jazz greats, got underway.

Mann’s creative …

Herbie Mann @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 22, 1974)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof)

(editor’s note – Duke Ellington was originally scheduled to play, but died)

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, June 21, 1974

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