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RIP George Wein.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:51 pm
by TurboPablo
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

Re: RIP George Wein.

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:52 pm
by ajaxlepinski
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!!!