Newport Jazz Festival Saratoga Performing Arts Center during the following year. He established the Newport Jazz Festival-Saratoga and remained in New York City, retaining the Newport Jazz Festival-New York in what amounted to an expansion. The Saratoga addition began a trend of using the "Newport Jazz Festival" name outside of Newport, as in the Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan, from 1982 to 2004. During the 1970s, the Newport Jazz Festival pioneered corporate sponsorship of music festivals. Working with Schlitz and KOOL, the festival changed its name based on what company was sponsoring. In 1981, George Wein brought the Newport Jazz Festival back
London Jazz Festival Research Council (2015–16). McKay was the inaugural Professor in Residence at the 2014 festival, and Webster the Researcher-in-Residence in 2016. The book covers the history of London as a city of jazz festivals since about 1949 and includes material on festivals at Bracknell, Camden, Crawley, and Richmond/Reading. In 2018, the final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician competition formed part of the festival, and the performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall were broadcast the following day by BBC Four. London Jazz Festival The London Jazz Festival is a music festival held every November. It takes place in London venues such