Word: wein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brick Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind. to blow to an audience sprawled on the lawns and perched in the surrounding oak trees, and in Toronto for a four-day blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz Festival...
Ralph Marterie and his band will play for the formal Saturday night dance on Jubilee Weekend, O. Y. Lewis '62, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. Earlier this term, the committee had signed a contract with George Wein and the Storyville band for the Friday night dance...
Leyland said last night that Council President Edward M. Abramson '57 had approved his request for a recount. He added that other candidates besides Wein-stock might ask a re-tally. Although the Council does not release election figures, the votes for some places were reported-ly as close as two or three ballots...
Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
Mulligan's quartet took turns with George Shearing and Co. in a concert of new jazz, sponsored by Story ville's George Wein. And once more, Mulligan demonstrated that he has one of the most original minds in American popular music. Shearing, however, was disappointing. With a heavy swing beat pitched quite obviously at the crowd, he is no longer the exciting musician of a few years...