INTERVIEW/PROFILE: George Wein on the Rebel Festival

Most people are unaware that in 1960, Newport, R.I., hosted not one but two jazz festivals. There was the big one that had been produced by George Wein since 1954. And there was a smaller, alternative festival put on by Charles Mingus. But after the riot of July 2, 1960, the smaller concert series known as the Rebel Jazz Festival was all but forgotten in the flurry of headlines.In Burt Goldblatt's book, Newport Jazz Festival, Lorraine Lorillard, freshly divorced from her husband by 1960 and forc...

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