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June 20, jazz will take over the Festival main stage. Langston Hughes, Jimmy Rushing, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee and Joe MacDonald's Festival Jazz Orchestra present "The Blues: Words and Music...
...Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers a vast additional library of musical lore from West Indies calypso to Ghana folk tales...
Since I do not know Fidel Castro and have never had any sort of contacts with him or communications from him, I would very much appreciate a retraction of the statement in the October 3 issue of TIME to the effect that "LeftWing Poet Langston Hughes dropped in" at the Theresa to pay respects. I have not been in the Hotel Theresa for several weeks, and was certainly not there during Mr. Castro's stay...
...LANGSTON HUGHES...
Even without the riots, the rebels feel, the old-style Newport Festival was doomed-it was too big, too square and too interested in box office instead of music. Even if the festival is revived next year, it will hardly be the same again. Langston Hughes summed...