Through My Lens: Newport Jazz Festival - Day Three

Orrin Evans

Day 3 of the Newport Jazz Festival kept the crowd happy with a lot of fun sets and ended with an energetic set by The Roots. This is what it looked like. (For the complete Newport Jazz Festival photo gallery click HERE.)

Maria Schneider Orchestra

Tim Berne's Snakeoil

Cyrille Aimée

Theo Croker

Jason Moran: Fats Waller Dance Party

The Philadelphia Experiment

Bokanté

Sean Jones Quintet

Hudson 

(Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski, John Scofield)

The Roots

You can see what Day 1 looked like HERE and what Day 2 looked like HERE.

The Roots To Play Newport Jazz Festival, August 6

The Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management announced another wave of artists this week. 

The festival, which takes place this year August 4 - August 6, in Newport, RI at Fort Adams State Park, added The Roots to the schedule. Road trip anyone? See below for a list of who else was announced this week. Grab your tickets HERE.

Friday, August 4

• Naturally 7
• Joey DeFrancesco + The People
• Christian Sands Quartet with Gilad Hekselman, Yasushi Nakamura & Jerome Jennings

Saturday, August 5

• Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding
• Uri Caine Trio with Mark Helias & Clarence Penn
• David Torkanowsky, solo piano

Sunday, August 6

• The Roots
• Philadelphia Experiment: Questlove, Christian McBride, Uri Caine
• John Medeski, solo piano