Founder of the Newport jazz and folk festivals. Through those two annual events he pretty much invented the music festival as we know it today. He was a good man that loved music and helped expose America and the world to jazz and the many black musicians that played it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/arts ... -dead.html
RIP George Wein.
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Re: RIP George Wein.
Jazz on a Summer's Day - The 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The film was released in 1959 and I saw it for the first time on PPS last year.
Dig all the crazy 50's hepcats in the audience!!!
Dig all the crazy 50's hepcats in the audience!!!
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.