Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao
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Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao is an annual jazz festival held in summer, July and August at Madaro plateau, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The several-day festival features musicians from Japan and some countries performing on different stages. Owners of Pensions at the ski resort planned Jazz Festival and they called in George Wein and this festival have started in 1982.
Notable artists at Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao were Dizzy Gillespie quartet, Spyro Gyra, Masahiko Sato, Stuff, Tania Maria, Toshiyuki Honda, Terumasa Hino, B. B. King, Gary Burton, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Ritenour, Wayne Shorter, Jackie McLean, Celia Cruz, Sérgio Mendes, Jonathan Butler, Gil Evans, Charmaine Neville, Larry Goldings, Regina Carter, Monday Michiru, Michael Brecker, Dianne Reeves, Ray Barretto, Angélique Kidjo, PE'Z, and many more.
