(Bop) VA - Newport in New York '72 (3CD) - 2009, MP3, 320 kbps

This release contains all known jazz performances from the 1972 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival, which took place at different venues in New York. This was the first time the Festival moved from Newport.
The 1972 festival consisted of thirty concerts with 62 all-star performer, at multiple venues, which included Yankee Stadium and Radio City Music Hall. Most of the performances are long jam sessions on popular standards by a mixture of well known jazzmen, most of whom didn’t usually play together.

Personnel on CD 1
Tracks #1-2: Dizzy Gillespie (tp); Benny Green (tb); Stan Getz (ts); Milt Jackson (vib); John Blair (vln); Kenny Burrell (g); Mary Lou Williams (p); Percy Heath (b); Big Black (congos) and Max Roach (d). Recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on July 3, 1972.
Tracks #3-4: Billy Eckstine (vcl); Bobby Tucker (p); Art Koeing (b); Charlie Persip (d). Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Sonny Stitt (ts) & Kai Winding (tb) added on 4. Recorded at Phillarmonic Hall, New York, on July 1, 1972.
Track #5: Clark Terry, Howard McGhee (tp); Dexter Gordon, Sony Stitt (ts); Gary Burton (vib); Jimmy Smith (org); George Duke (p); Al McKibbon (b) and Art Blakey (d). Recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on July 6, 1972.

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Personnel on CD 2
Track #1: Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp); Dexter Gordon, Zoot Sims, James Moody, Flip Phillips (ts); Rahsaan Roland Kirk (ts, stritch, manzello & whistle); Kai Winding (tb); Chick Wayne (g); Herbie Hancock (p); Larry Ridley (b) and Tony Williams (d). Recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on July 3, 1972.
Tracks #2-3: Cat Anderson, Jimmy Ownes (tp); Charles McPherson (as); Buddy Tate (ts); Milt Buckner (org); Roland Hanna (p); Charles Mingus (b) and Allan Dawson (d). Recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on July 6, 1972.

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Personnel on CD 3
Tracks #1-3: Joe Newman, Nat Adderley (tp); Illinois Jacquet, Budd Johnson (ts); Tyree Glenn (tb); Gerry Mulligan (bs); Jaki Byrad (p); Chubby Jackson (b) and Elvin Jones (d). Recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on July 6, 1972.
Tracks #4-5: Clark Terry, Joe Newman (tp); Zoot Sims, Illinois Jacquet (ts); Jimmy Smith (org); Kenny Burrell, B.B. King (g) and Roy Haynes (d). Recorded at Yankee Stadium, New York, on July 7, 1972.
Soloists on the Ballad Medley:
What’s New?: Zoot Sims
Since I Fell For You: Clark Terry
The Man I Love: Illinois Jacquet
Ode to Billie Joe: Joe Newman
Please Send Me Someone to Love: Kenny Burrell & B.B. King