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“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 5, 1980)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Hubert Laws or Kenny Davern)

Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, Manhattan Transfer steal show at SPAC

by Woody Klein, Bennington Banner, July 10, 1980

After 24 hours of all kinds of …

“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 5, 1980)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Hubert Laws or Kenny Davern)

Strange Brew of Mud, Music at SPAC’s Newport Jazz Festival

by Megan Price, Rutland Daily Herald, July 9, 1980

The scene Saturday at the Saratoga …

“Newport Jazz Festival” @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (July 5, 1980)

(editor’s note – no ex post facto proof for Hubert Laws or Kenny Davern)

Spa ‘Newport’ triumph for pure jazz

by Steve Webb, The Knickerbocker News, July 7, 1980

The two-day finale of the Newport Jazz Festival, held for the …

Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 22, 1975)

Goodman proves ‘swing’ never died

by Bryan Jackson, The Saratogian

If the music period known as the “Swing Era” had survived, it would be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

“Swing” exploded with a fireworks force in the mid-30’s and …

Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (June 22, 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 …

Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 13, 1974)

Benny Goodman Still Too Good to Believe

by Sandra Gartner, The Rutland Daily Herald, August 15, 1974

Benny Goodman and his Jazz Ensemble cannot be reviewed, but only absorbed and watched with awe. Goodman, who created a subtle swing …

Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center (August 13, 1974)

Goodman Takes 7,000 on Nostalgia Trip

by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, August 15, 1974

It may have been 1974 but it sounded like 1938 Tuesday evening at the Saratoga Festival.

Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, returned to …

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