Newport Jazz Festival archive
Listen The Bad Plus With Bill Frisell, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 8, 2012 – A piano trio sui generis meets one of its heroes, a guitarist down for anything. WGBH
Listen Kurt Elling, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 7, 2012 – The mannered, declamatory singer bellows in front of a band featuring pianist Laurence Hobgood. WGBH
Read Highlights: The 2012 Newport Jazz Festival In Photos
August 6, 2012 – View a gallery featuring Jack DeJohnette, Jenny Scheinman, Kurt Elling and Bill Frisell.
Listen John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet + 1, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 5, 2012 – The drummer sets the poems of Kenneth Patchen to music, with singers Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann. WBGO
Listen Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz Festival 2012
August 5, 2012 – Top students from the school's international program perform with the sparkling drummer Adam Cruz.
Listen Miguel Zenón's Rayuela Quartet, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 5, 2012 – The saxophonist teams up with pianist Laurent Coq to write music based on a Julio Cortázar novel. WGBH
Listen Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Centennial Project, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 5, 2012 – What if the late composer-arranger Gil Evans left behind unrecorded masterpieces? Here's the answer.
Listen Three Cohens, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 5, 2012 – Yuval, Anat and Avishai Cohen are top-tier jazz musicians. They're also siblings in a family band.
Listen Jenny Scheinman & Bill Frisell, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 5, 2012 – The flexible, long-time collaborators perform alone together on stage, thinking on their feet. WBGO
Listen Rudresh Mahanthappa And Samdhi, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 5, 2012 – Blending South Asian music with funk, the saxophonist's band is electric, literally and otherwise. WBGO
Listen Lewis Nash Quintet, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WGBH
August 5, 2012 – A drummer who innovates within jazz traditions leads a classic quintet lineup. WGBH
Listen Jack DeJohnette All-Stars, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 5, 2012 – The master drummer continues his year-long 70th birthday celebration by opening his Rolodex.
Listen Three Clarinets, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012 WBGO
August 4, 2012 – Ken Peplowski, Evan Christopher and Anat Cohen headline this reedy convocation of woodwinds. WBGO
Listen Bill Frisell Plays John Lennon, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 4, 2012 – With his inventive arrangements, the guitarist doesn't hide his love away for classic Beatles tunes.
Listen Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
August 4, 2012 – The composer has steadily been rescuing the big band from the dustbin of anachronism.