[Programs for:] 14 Newport Jazz Festivals, as below

[Newport & New York]: 1954-70. All 4to, all in pictorial wrappers and all illustrated throughout. Includes nos. 1-3 (1954-56); 5-7 (1958-60); 9-14 (1962-67); 16-17 (1969-70). Generally fine throughout. Headliners in 1954 included Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Dizzie Gillespie Quintet, and Ella Fitzgerald. In 1962 headlining were the Charles Mingus Sextet, Louis Armstrong, the Thelonius Monk Quartet, and Duke Ellington; and by 1970 we still have Louis Armstrong, and also the Elvin Jones Quartet, Nina Simone, the Herbie Mann Quintet, the Roberta Flack Trio, and the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. The 1958 program has inserted, as issued, a vinyl 45 rpm featuring "My Funny Valentine" by Manny Albam, and "Scrapple from the Apple," by Tony Scott and his Jazz Greats. Accompanied by: Newport Jazz Festival the Illustrated History, pictures and text by Burt Gloldblatt. N.Y.: Dial Press, [1977]. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], 287, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in dust jacket. Accompanied by: The Newport Jazz Festival: Rhode Island 1954-1971: A Bibliography, Discography and Filmography. Edited by Anthony J. Agostinelli, Providence, 1977. Printed from typescript, various paginations, original printed blue wrappers; fine. Item #56724

Price: $1,500.00