JVC and Jazz..
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boreas
"If it sounds good, it IS good." E.K.E.
Looks awesome too, John, and very appropriate as JVC has almost single handedly kept the Newport Jazz Festival alive when it took over sponsorship of the event in '72. It was a labor of love for the company but the economic collapse in 2008 was too much for them. They just couldn't afford to run the festival any longer.
John
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boreas
"If it sounds good, it IS good." E.K.E.
Oh, absolutely! It's just that JVC is no longer involved. I also think it's safe to say that, had JVC not stepped in back in the '70s, the festival wouldn't have survived.
John
I thought Kool (cigarettes) first took over the festival in the early '70s.
boreas
"If it sounds good, it IS good." E.K.E.
Ya got me! JVC didn't become involved until the '80's, not the '70s. Kools was indeed involved in the '70s. Wasn't this when the festival was in NYC though and didn't Kools drop the Newport name in favor of the "Kool Jazz Festival?
John
LOL! I was doing a little reading, and the festival wasn't immediately called the Kool Jazz Festival in the 70s, although Kool was a sponsor during that decade. The festival I believe was simply called Newport in New York at first.
It wasn't called The Kool Jazz Festival until 1981. The first JVC Jazz Festival was in 1984.
Here's an old article from the New York Times verifying the 1981 date:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/20/arts/kool-festival-to-honor-greats-of-jazz.html
And another article from Crain's regarding the JVC Jazz Festival:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/articl...67/jvc-ends-sponsorship-of-nyc-jazz-festival#
jleon92f
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LOL! I was doing a little reading, and the festival wasn't immediately called the Kool Jazz Festival in the 70s, although Kool was a sponsor during that decade. The festival I believe was simply called Newport in New York at first.
It wasn't called The Kool Jazz Festival until 1981. The first JVC Jazz Festival was in 1984.
Here's an old article from the New York Times verifying the 1981 date:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/20/arts/kool-festival-to-honor-greats-of-jazz.html
And another article from Crain's regarding the JVC Jazz Festival:
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/articl...67/jvc-ends-sponsorship-of-nyc-jazz-festival#
I have Vols 3&4 have to look for 1&2
003 by jleon92f, on FlickrJohn.
