Newport Jazz Festival Newport Jazz Festival The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island. Most of the early festivals were broadcast on Voice of America radio, and many performances were recorded and released as albums. In 1972, the Newport Jazz Festival was moved to New York City. In 1981, it became a two-site festival when it was returned to Newport while continuing in
Charlie Jazz Festival Charlie Jazz Festival The Charlie Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held every summer in Vitrolles, Provence, France. It was established in 1998 by "Charlie Free", a not-for-profit jazz organization which runs jazz sessions every two weeks at "Le Moulin à Jazz", a famous jazz club in France. The festival is hosted at "Le Domaine de Fontblanche", a public garden with hundred-year-old plane trees, the first weekend of July. The two stages in the park feature concerts by international artists, but a large part of the program aims to discover talented young players from Europe and France. Since its