Jazz Articles about George Wein

Myself Among Others, A Life in Music

by Kyle Simpler
October 16, 2003

Myself Among Others George Wein with Nate Chinen Da Capo Books 2003

George Wein started playing piano during his youth and went on to become one of the most important figures in the music world. His playing, though, wasn’t what brought him to prominence. Make no mistake about it, he’s got plenty of talent in the music department, but his love of jazz and desire to promote it proved to be the ...

A Fireside Chat With George Wein

by AAJ Staff
April 22, 2003

As the man behind what seems like every major jazz festival in this country, if not the world, George Wein has seen and heard everything. You can't argue with someone who has seen the likes of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and my hands are getting tired. To think he was a Harvard dropout. It must say something about Harvard when the two most famous people I know to ...

George Wein: Dinosaur Walks the Earth

by R.J. DeLuke
June 14, 2000

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in June 2000. George Wein is in his 47th year of producing jazz festivals. He invented them, going back to the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. Now they take place all around the globe. He's 75 in October, but still going strong. How much longer will be the most famous jazz impresario? Even he doesn't know. So cherish him while he's still out there. He ...