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News: Festival

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal celebrates its 30th birthday with Chris Botti, Ornette Coleman, Maria Schneider, Wayne Shorter, Gary Burton and Pat Metheny

March 11, 2009

Beirut, Chris Botti, Jackson Browne, Pink Martini, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Maria Schneider, King Sunny Ade and Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Wayne Shorter Quartet, The Lost Fingers, Gary Burton Quartet Revisited with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez, George Wein and the Newport All-Stars, Battle of the Bands with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and ...

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News: Festival

George Wein to Negotiate to Produce Jazz and Folk Festivals in Newport

March 3, 2009

GEORGE WEIN TO NEGOTIATE TO PRODUCE 2009 JAZZ AND FOLK FESTIVALS IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND NEW YORK, NY, March 3, 2009 - George Wein, producer of the seminal Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959, announced that his application to negotiate a license with the Department ...

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Article: Film Review

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

by Victor L. Schermer
February 17, 2009

Jackie Paris'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisOutsider PicturesWritten and Directed by Raymond De FelittaProducer: David Zellerford 2009 “You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."--Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront

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News: Video / DVD

"'Tis Autumn, the Search for Jackie Paris" Set for March 31 DVD Release

February 4, 2009

Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris is not just a documentary about a great but unheralded jazz singer, it explores the very nature of what it is to live the life of any artist--too many of whom share the same fate--the explosive debut, followed by the years of ups and downs, and the constant ...

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News: Performance / Tour

George Wein and the Newport All-Stars at Dizzys Club Coca Cola Starting Tuesday Novemeber 4th

October 28, 2008

After you go out to vote, spend the evening with George Wein & the Newport All-stars at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway & 60th Street, 5th Floor, on Tuesday, November 4, (Election Day) and nightly through Sunday, November 9, at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm. Back by popular demand for the ...

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News: Festival

Newport Jazz Festival Founder is Now on the Bill Instead of Worrying About the Bills

September 7, 2008

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 ...

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News: Event

Newport After George Wein: One of the Stars Will Be George Wein

August 9, 2008

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 ...

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News: Festival

Newport Jazz Festival Founder George Wein Performs at Festival on August 10

July 22, 2008

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

George Wein & The Newport All-Stars at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC

by Martin Longley
October 17, 2007

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 ...

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Article: Interview

George Wein: A Life in Music

by George Kanzler
March 28, 2006

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 ...