Sirius Satellite Radio is saluting The Newport Jazz festival with a special weekend of programming, from 9am ET on Saturday August 11th through midnight ET on Sunday August 12th, on Pure Jazz (ch 72).
The Newport Jazz festival, now in its 53rd year, is America's first summer jazz festival.
Tune in to hear hourly historic Newport performances, including previously undiscovered and unreleased recordings of jazz great Horace Silver at the festival in 1958. The broadcast will also feature reminiscences from the festival's founder - George Wein.
In addition, Pure Jazz will air newly re-mastered tracks by John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and many more. These recordings were just unearthed from the Library of Congress and will not be commercially available until next year, but will be broadcast on Pure Jazz next weekend.
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