2026 Newport Jazz Festival Lineup and Ticket Announcement - Next Tuesday April 21st at 1p

[tranemonk]

https://newportjazz.org/tickets

I'm very cautiously optimistic that the lineup will start shifting back to jazz, since they have a new programmer. We'll see. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I'm actually anticipating it will have even less jazz content as has been the case for most "jazz" festivals these days.

[tranemonk]

Interesting. Even though I don't know 2/3rds of these groups, there are some folks I'd love to see (e.g. Charles Lloyd, The Bad Plus, etc.) What do you think? Anybody know any of these other names ,you'd recommend? 

https://newportjazz.org/lineup

 

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Sullivan Fortner is at the top of his game these days. Tia Fuller is always great, Ditto Billy Hart. I'd say Terri Lynne Carrington would be a "must see" but not with Social Science. I'm not a fan of that band. Billy Hart's quartet is really good. Charles Lloyd would be worth catching but the last time I saw Lloyd, he was just OK. Maybe he had an off night?

[randyhersom]

I had been unaware that there was a new Leon Thomas on the scene.

[tranemonk]

I'm trying to be a little more open-minded to these bands I've never heard of. It seems this festival (the first one under Nate Smith) has a smidge more jazz to it than Christian McBride's last few festivals. When he had Common as the headliner a few years ago I knew I was out... 

I'm hoping this is going to be get better.