The festival is planned from August seventh to the ninth with performers including Etta James, Branford Marsalis, Tony Bennett and Mos Def.

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Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

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They include Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Turner,Red Holloway and DeeDee Bridgewater.

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The jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once said that nothing captures the democratic process as perfectly as jazz.

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New Orleans master mentor Ellis Marsalis played an exploratory, growing meditation on "Winter Wonderland, " anchored by brooding left-hand ostinato chords.

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We're likely to hear much of her modern, pan-Latin jazz live from Newport's Marsalis Music stage on Saturday.

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