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Photos: Newport Jazz Festival 2012

Fort Adams State Park, Newport RI | August 3-5, 2012

By JEAN HANGARTER | August 9, 2012

Becca Stevens, Lionel Loueke, and Gretchen Parlato | The Newport Jazz Festival 2012 | Fort Adams State Park, Newport RI | August 3-5, 2012

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Newport Jazz Festival 2012
Every year the Newport Jazz Festival confronts with the same dilemma: how to objectively judge music presented under such variable conditions.
Ten best bets at the Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival has been on a roll these last few years, blending the commercial clout of big names with the creative cred of adventurous newcomers.
Review: Jim Hall and Bill Frisell, Hemispheres
What makes Hemispheres such a successful collaboration is not that Jim Hall and Bill Frisell meet in the middle but that they start there and extend outward.
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Newport Jazz Festival 2012
Every year the Newport Jazz Festival confronts with the same dilemma: how to objectively judge music presented under such variable conditions.
Ten best bets at the Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival has been on a roll these last few years, blending the commercial clout of big names with the creative cred of adventurous newcomers.
Review: Jim Hall and Bill Frisell, Hemispheres
What makes Hemispheres such a successful collaboration is not that Jim Hall and Bill Frisell meet in the middle but that they start there and extend outward.
The Place
Sometimes a burger or a heap of nachos is just what the appetite (and budget) ordered. Sometimes nothing less than white linen elegance will do. A Newport place ambitiously named the Place bills itself as "the wine bar and grille at Yesterdays." The latter restaurant describes itself as "an alehouse;" it has 36 microbrews on tap and a menu that skews playful and Caribbean. Oy — a pint, mon.
More than guitar
"I like using songs to change the environment — to get the listener's ear to be a little skewed."
You Snus you lose
Unbowed by last month's $1 a pack increase in the cigarette tax, the tobacco industry is pushing new unhealthy products to gain more Rhode Island customers.
2009: The year in jazz
Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite things from among the people, CDs, and concerts I wrote about in 2009.
Chafee and the hazards of a bold politics
By the time a candidate for major office steps up to the microphone to officially declare for the seat, everyone already knows his intentions.
Blackshaw's good vibrations
Blackshaw's low-key career has evolved as organically as one of his songs: at 28, the Londoner has amassed a body of instrumental guitar music that defies tidy categorization. What he does isn't really folk, jazz, or new age — and it's far too accessible to be mistaken for avant-garde.
Best in their field
The jazz scene continues to struggle — along with everyone else — through hard times.
Might as well jump
Last Thursday, Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island — the last of his legendary clan in Congress — announced that he will not run for re-election.
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