THE CRITICS SYMPOSIUM AT NEWPORT, July 2nd and 3rd, 1958

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

I Wednesday, July 2nd -- Viking Hotel

A. "The Editors' Point of View" -- 3 P.M., Conference Room

(Editors of national publications explore the market and qualifications for jazz writing.)

Papers by editors of *Esquire, Mademoiselle, Grove Press, Life* and others.

Moderator: Louis Lorillard

B. Movie shorts, TV kinescopes -- 8:30 P.M., Conference Room

II Thursday, July 3rd -- Viking Hotel

A. "The Musicians' Point of View" -- 10 A.M., Conference Room

(Musicians define and discuss the ways in which jazz criticism can be helpful.)

Papers by Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Shelly Manne, Bill Russo, Tony Scott and others.

Moderator: The Reverend Norman O'Connor

B. **Luncheon Meeting** -- Bamboo Room, Viking Hotel, 12:30 P.M.

(Plans will be considered for making the Critics Symposium a permanent, autonomous organization with annual meetings.)

C. "The Critics' Point of View" -- 3 P.M., Conference Room

(An analysis of the ideal role of the jazz critic in modern writing.)

Papers by Rudi Blesh, John Mehegan, Martin Williams and others.

Moderator: S. I. Hayakawa

D. Valedictorian: Mr. Mort Sahl: "Jazz Critics"

ANNUAL NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL AWARD

Preliminary Committee:

Langston Hughes, Chairman
John Hammond
Leonard Feather
Allan Morrison

The Preliminary Committee feels that:

1. The Award should be limited to the _performing arts_ in jazz -- musicians, singers, or dancers.

2. That it should be in recognition of _young_ or _newly discovered_ talent, rather than in honor of an established or widely acclaimed artist.

3. Possible titles for the Award might be The Newport Jazz Festival's Annual:
NEW TALENT AWARD
YOUTH MUST BE SERVED AWARD
MOST PROMISING ARTIST AWARD
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR AWARD

4. Perhaps the Award should be unlimited by age, since it might conceivably be given sometime to a mature artist who is making a distinctive contribution to jazz, but has not attracted national attention, for whatever reason -- perhaps because his performances have been limited to a small community -- or he may have been in jail like Leadbelly.

5. Selection of the artist to receive this Award should be made by an Awards Committee from a final list of candidates after eliminations by a Preliminary Committee chosen for sorting the possibilities.

6. A means of scanning the country for the best talent should be devised, perhaps through a large panel of competent jazz critics, musicologists, traveling musicians, record executives, and others having the opportunity to hear jazz in numerous cities; or those living in various parts of the country who might report on jazz artists of unusual promise in their locale. Members of this wide panel would be asked to submit names of the most exciting new or unknown artists heard during the year, or send tape recordings of such artists, well enough in advance for the Awards Committee to hear them in person or to arrange to have competent deputies hear and judge their merits for the Committee.

When the list has been reduced to perhaps a half dozen or so, it might be possible for Committee members to make special trips to local communities to hear the artist perform or, in exceptional cases, artists might be brought to New York for auditions.

7. In connection with the Award, the honored artist might be introduced in performance at Newport when the Award is given.

Preliminary Committee:

## NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

### AMERICAN JAZZ FESTIVAL
OF NEWPORT, R. I., INC.

A non-profit corporation "to encourage America's enjoyment of Jazz and to sponsor the study of Jazz, a true American art form".

OFFICERS
LOUIS L. LORILLARD, President • George T. Wein,
Vice President • Richard Sheffield, Secretary •
Jeremiah P. Maloney, Treasurer

DIRECTORS
The Officers and Irving Beck • Charles Bourgeois •
Marshall Brown • Willis Conover • John
Hammond • Langston Hughes • Mrs. Louis L. Loril-
lard • Clark Simmonds • Marshall Stearns • Miss
Terri Turner • Charles McWhorter

PUBLIC RELATIONS
P. R. & R. INC. • 132 East 38th Street •
New York City • Telephone — ORegon 9-8090
Voice of America records and broadcasts
the festival throughout the world.

### ADVISORY MEMBERS

Nelson Aldrich • Cleveland Amory • Louis
Armstrong • George Avakian • Robert Bach • Count
Basie • Richard Dyer Bennet • Leonard Bernstein •
Professor Donald Born • Dom Cerulli • Dean
Robert Choate • Aaron Copland • Bill Coss • Henry
Cowell • Cyrus Durgin • Ralph Ellison • Duke
Ellington • Nesuhi Ertegun • Leonard Feather •
Arthur Fiedler • Arnold Gingrich • Ralph J. Gleason •
Benny Goodman • Norman Granz • Jay
Harrison • Maxim Karolik • Stan Kenton • Rev.
Allen Kershaw • Sylvia Marlowe • Johnny Mercer •
Allan Morrisson • Father Norman O'Conner, CSP •
John Barry Ryan, III • Gunther Schuller • George
Simon • Rabbi Edgar E. Siskin • Jean Stein • Barry
Ulanov • George Henry Warren

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## THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

has been called one of the seven **wonders** of the modern entertainment world. It is literally "the World Series of Jazz" — the greatest event in the world devoted to jazz music!

Since that momentous day in July of 1954 when the first festival was held, interest in the Newport Jazz Festival has built up throughout the universe. Visitors from **every** state in the United States and **many** foreign lands make the pilgrimage to the picturesque site each year to hear the **finest** jazz music anywhere in a site of unsurpassed beauty and interest.

The Newport Jazz Festival is a panoramic, **outdoor** festival — an 'eye and ear' attraction, staged in one of the world's most famous summer resorts.

The festival is conducted by a non-profit corporation devoted "to encouraging America's **enjoyment** of jazz and to sponsoring the study of jazz, a true American art form."

At the time this booklet goes to press, the final program for the 1958 festival has not yet been set. We believe that the Newport

Jazz Festival this summer will **far surpass**
anything seen in the past. It will be the most
exciting, musically-stimulating jazz festival
ever presented.

Present plans are for four gala evening
shows, each conceived around a single theme.
There will also be the tremendously exciting
afternoon sessions, presenting the unusual,
the avant garde the most exciting new things
in jazz.

An added ingredient this year at the festival
will be the presence of the Newport Jazz
Festival "International Youth Band", a group
of musicians representing the best young
talent from some 20 countries throughout
the world. This group has been assembled by
the directors of the Newport Jazz Festival
expressly for the purpose of making this
single appearance at Newport, Rhode Island
this summer. The only place where you will be
able to see and hear this thrilling aggregation
of world-wide musical talents is at the
5th annual Newport Jazz Festival!

THE TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR THE EVENING PERFORMANCES INCLUDES:

NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON:

Along with Duke and his band, this
exciting tribute would feature such jazz
greats as Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, a
reunion of former Ellington sidemen —
Ben Webster, Cootie Williams, Rex
Stewart, Lawrence Brown, Willie Smith,
etc. — all in an evening of great
Ellington music;

A BENNY GOODMAN NIGHT:

Starring Benny and his big band, along
with many of the musical greats who
played with Goodman in the past.

A BLUES NIGHT: This would be an
entire evening devoted to the great
American tradition of the blues, with such
famed performers as Count Basie, Dinah
Washington, Ray Charles, etc.; and

AN ALL-STAR NIGHT: This would
be a gala treat in which every available
great name in jazz would appear on
the same platform, with performers like
George Shearing and Billie Eckstine
indicated. This evening would feature
many of the names that have helped
make Newport "The World's Series of
Jazz."

NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

A

SHORT HISTORY OF THE

The idea of a jazz festival was first conceived by Louis and Elaine Lorillard, long-time Newport residents, early in 1954. They enlisted the aid of George Wein, well-known Boston jazz impresario, in planning the first festival for the summer of '54.

The first festival was held on the grounds of the august Newport Casino, home of top-flight lawn tennis since the first national championships were held there in 1881. Chairs were set up on the side courts and a small music shell was erected near the grandstand court. Musically, the 1954 festival was an instant hit, but the unexpectedly large attendance taxed the physical facilities of the small Casino.

When the 1955 festival was being planned, the Newport Jazz Festival's board of directors considered several sites. A larger site for the event was then offered by the town fathers of Newport. This was Freebody Park, the city's municipal sports arena. The park is a large walled-in grass tract with a permanent concrete stadium along the south side.

Freebody Park has proved to be a fine site for this internationally popular event, and all subsequent festivals have been held at the park. People from all 48 states come each year to the festival; although a majority of our visitors come from Eastern seaboard areas, some friends of jazz travel from as far as California, Texas and Oregon. Scores of foreign friends attend each festival from such far-away lands as England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden — even Japan, Argentina and Brazil have been represented!

GRANTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL:

The Institute of Jazz Studies in New York — $3,000.

A Louis Armstrong Scholarship at the Jazz Music School in Lennox, Mass. — $1,000.

Gift to the city of Newport for extra expenses incurred by the festival — $1,000.

Newport's sponsorship of a 'jazz cavalcade' representing the United States at the Brussels World's Fair, 1958 — $6,000.

The Narcotics Study and Rehabilitation Committee — $5,000.

NEWPORT

NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL

HOTELS AND MOTELS IN NEWPORT AND PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND AND VICINITY

Reservations for accommodations should be made by writing **directly** to the hotel or motel of your choice!

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — 30 miles from Newport
Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel
(Approx. 500 rooms, all with baths and showers, singles, doubles and suites)

TIVERTON, RHODE ISLAND — 7 miles from Newport
Stonebridge Inn
(Approx. 30 rooms)

Narragansett Hotel — 97 Dorrance St.
(Approx. 200 single and double rooms)

Crown Hotel — 208 Weybosset St.
(Approx. 175-200 single and double rooms)

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — 28 miles from Newport
New Bedford Hotel. — 725 Pleasant St.
(Approx. 150 single and double rooms)

FALL RIVER, MASS. — 20 miles from Newport
Mellen Hotel — 123 North Main St.
(Approx. 100 single and double rooms)

Kenmore Manor — 144 Third St.

SEEKONK, MASS. — 15 miles from Newport
Esquire Motel — 1096 Fall River Ave.

Shangri-La Motel — 1495 Fall River Ave.
Town and Country Motel — Fall River

BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND — 5 miles from Newport
Harriet Bradford Inn — 42 Hope St.
(Approx. 50 single and double rooms)

JAMESTOWN, RHODE ISLAND — 3 miles from Newport
There are two large hotels in town — write the Chamber of Commerce.

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
Hotel Viking — Bellevue Ave.
Muenchinger-King Hotel — Bellevue Ave.
Beach Hotel — Boulevard
Castle Hill Hotel
Cliff Walk Manor — Boulevard

There are numerous motels and private rooming houses in Newport proper and the immediate surrounding area.

For **additional** housing information, please address your requests to:

Mr. Ted Jarrett
Chamber of Commerce
Newport, Rhode Island

ACCOMODATIONS
AND ATTRACTIONS

As at every great festival of this type, living accomodations are always at a premium. Visitors are **urged** to make arrangements as early as possible in order to assure proper selection and confirmation.

Newport itself has two principal hotels, the Viking (official Festival headquarters) and the Muenchinger-King, plus a variety of attractive motels, seasonal small hotels and comfortable tourist homes in the immediate area. In addition, many private homes are opened to visitors during the Festival.

Besides the facilities in Newport, there are very attractive facilities available in towns and cities within a 30-mile radius of Newport. Many of the more experienced visitors to the Festival prefer these accomodations because it enables them to see more of the beautiful surrounding countryside.

The average room rent in Newport and vicinity during the Festival ranges from $3.50 up to $10 and $12 per person a night, the latter figures including private bath.

This year, the Newport Jazz Festival is fortunate to have obtained the fine co-operation of the Sheraton Hotel chain. Festival **information** may be obtained at the transportation desk of your nearest Sheraton Hotel as well as at various New England-New York ticket offices or by the enclosed **order form**.

SOME
FACTS
ABOUT
NEWPORT

The New Haven & Hartford Railroad has excellent train service to Providence with immediate Short Line Bus connections from Providence to Newport, (an hour's bus ride). Many travellers prefer to travel by auto. Highways are well marked from New York, Cape Cod, Providence and Boston to indicate the best routing to the festival.

From Newport there are direct bus connections to Albany, New York, Providence, Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts.

Air shuttle service is available between the Rhode Island State Airport at Hillsgrove and the Newport Air Park. The local air park also makes charter connections with New York and all airports in the Northeast; it has ample facilities for private planes.

Newport has an adequate number of good restaurants; extra help and supplies are naturally procured during the festival period, but patrons are wise to plan their eating well enough ahead to be on hand for the 8:30 p.m. opening of the festival programs.

Food and beverage is available on the festival grounds. It is provided by the Kiwanis Club of Newport and profits are apportioned for their use in the aid of needy children.

Newports attractions as a resort are so numerous and well-known that a complete listing would be difficult and superfluous. The fact that President

Eisenhower chose this city for his 1957 summer vacation gives you an idea of Newport's appeal.

Colonial houses and fabulous mansions of the Gay Nineties are open to visitors. The bulk of this activity is sponsored by the Preservation Society of Newport County, 5 Charles Street, Newport (write for brochures). The society's premier attraction is "The Breakers," the 70 room Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion, one of the most magnificent private residences in the world. It is open daily to visitors and was viewed by 50,000 tourists in the summer of 1957. Touro Synagogue, the country's oldest, and Trinity Church, a colonial masterpiece, are open without fee.

Swimming, boating, fishing, golf, tennis and sightseeing acquire a special distinction when enjoyed in Newport, "America's First Resort."

As one of the foremost American seaports, Newport is the site of an immense naval shore establishment and is the headquarters of the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Force, largest warship command in the world. Among the naval installations are the Naval War College, Officer Candidate School, Naval Supply Depot, Naval Justice School and Underwater Ordnance Station.

Newport's culture has flourished in so many directions over the years — in art, philosophy, education, religion and music — that modern and traditional jazz found a ready welcome here when presented by the world's leading performers.

the Newport Art Association
will present

NEW GENERATION PAINTERS

at the Cushing Memorial Gallery

Bellevue Avenue sponsored by the
Newport Jazz Festival

1945
1958

SOME OF THE STARS WHO HAVE
APPEARED AT NEWPORT

Gene Krupa
Errol Garner
Woody Herman
Coleman Hawkins
Dinah Washington
Marian McPartland
Dave Brubeck
Count Basie
Miles Davis
Thelonius Monk
Kai Winding
J. J. Johnson
Sarah Vaughan
Duke Ellington
Jack Teagarden
Kid Ory
Carmen McRae
Chris Connors
Mahalia Jackson

Louis Armstrong
Eddie Condon
Bobby Hackett
Pee-Wee Russell
Modern Jazz Quartet
Dizzie Gillespie
Oscar Peterson
Gerry Mulligan
Ella Fitzgerald
Stan Kenton
Lester Young
George Shearing
Teddy Wilson
Ruby Braff
Lennie Tristano
Billie Holiday
J. C. Higginbotham
Turk Murphy
Mary Lou Williams
Anita O'Day

Here is your official

NEWPORT
JAZZ FESTIVAL

Mail Order Blank

ALL MAIL ORDERS WILL BE FILLED IN
ORDER OF RECEIPT, SO SEND IN YOUR
REQUEST FOR TICKETS NOW!

Please send checks or money orders made out to
"NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL" to:

Newport Jazz Festival

Ticket Department

Hotel Viking

Newport, Rhode Island

Afternoon Performance Tickets

Are Obtained At Box Office

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Please add 25¢ to all orders to cover cost
of handling and mailing.

See program on reverse side