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Newport Jazz Festival Founder is Now on the Bill Instead of Worrying About the Bills
NEWPORT, R.I. - For the first time since he founded the Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein didn't have to sign any checks or worry about how the fickle weather might affect the bottom line. Instead, his biggest concern at the recent festival was whether he could keep up on piano with his Newport All-Stars band during ...
Newport After George Wein: One of the Stars Will Be George Wein
George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival Producer's Swan Song Center Stage Jazz lovers and jazz musicians are converging on Newport, R.I., this weekend, as they have been doing since 1954, for what is universally recognized as the jazz festival that put jazz festivals on the map. And, as usual, George Wein, the man who produced the first ...
Newport Jazz Festival Founder George Wein Performs at Festival on August 10
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDER GEORGE WEIN PERFORMS AT 2008 JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, FORT ADAMS STATE PARK NEW YORK - George Wein & the Newport All-stars are among the many great artists set to perform on the main stage at this year's JVC Jazz Festival Newport on Sunday, August 10. Featuring Wein on ...
George Wein & The Newport All-Stars at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC
by Martin Longley
George Wein & The Newport All-StarsDizzy's Club Coca-ColaJazz At Lincoln CenterNew York City, New YorkTuesday, October 2, 2007 The avuncular George Wein is beaming like he's holding his own personal jam session at home, inviting his favorite players and basking in their glow. Well, this is pretty close to the reality ...
George Wein: A Life in Music
by George Kanzler
No matter what you think of the jazz festival, you can't think of it without thinking of George Wein. In 1954 he presented the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and it became the template for the modern jazz festival. Wein went on to bring the jazz festival concept to New York, where it has ...
America's Been Tough On Jazz
by Eric Pettine
In America, he's his own man—he's got to be—no corporation seeks him out or needs him. Her attitude and attire doesn't always “cut it" with the latest vogue. He doesn't really have a particular deadline or agenda to meet. She's “got her ax down" and she's ready to carve out her own market share. He's got ...
Myself Among Others, A Life in Music
by Kyle Simpler
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 ...
A Fireside Chat With George Wein
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Tribute To Count Basie
Label: RCA Camden
Released: 1974
Track listing: Swingin' The Blues; Broadway; Blue And Sentimental; Goin' To Chicago; Lester Leaps in; One O'Clock Jump;
