FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Go Newport

Going into 2009, we wondered whether the Newport Jazz Festival as we've known it all these years, would ever be back - given the financial straits of the Festival Network LLC, the upstart company that in 2007 bought George Wein's highly respected, well-oiled Festival Productions Inc. machine.Well, it's back, compliments of Wein's refusal to see his Newport legacy muddied, calling together many members of his longtime production team - from Newport to New Orleans and elsewhere, reforming a new co...

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