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...bottles and debris at the police and the police threw tear gas. At the Newport (Rhode Island) Jazz Festival over the July 4 weekend, where rock was included for the first time, bonfires were set, chairs and fences broken inside the festival grounds; on the last day, Producer George Wein announced that the appearance of one of Britain's top new groups, Led Zeppelin, would be canceled in the "interests of public safety." So worried about safety were the Newport city fathers that they issued an edict prohibiting any rock at Wein's Newport Folk Festival last weekend...
...Lighthouse seemed to be Festival director Wein's way of teasing us all and reminding us what was to come that night. And it seemed to pacify, for a while at least, the crowd on the hill behind Festival Field. But as the afternoon wore on into evening (and the traffic backed up for miles and it took two hours to drive four blocks) the crowd on the hill grew and the tension kept building. During the show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept...
When, at the crowd's insistence, Wein brought them back for their encore, there was only one thing they could sing, only one thing that fit, "You made me so very happy--I'm so glad you came into my life...
...companions frugged, jerked and twisted beneath hot studio lights. Edie was dressed in her "uniform," a pair of leotard mesh stockings topped by tight black panties, a blue surfer's shirt, and huge earrings that hung down to her collarbone. The rest of the Warhol entourage included Chuck Wein, Harvard '60, who peroxides his hair and wears it long, and Don Lyons, another Harvard man, who is a teaching fellow in Greek classics, wears his hair short and leaves it plain...
...differ ence between soul or "funk" music and other varieties of jazz is the difference between talking "colored" and ordinary English-and only a Negro musician can feel it. "It is murder today for white jazz players. Negro clubs just won't play them." says Impresario George Wein. White Pianist Paul Winter, 22, who has three Negroes in his sextet, agrees: "We're right in the middle of a Crow Jim period. Out in Chicago they told us, 'Don't go to New York-you're ofay.' "* Echoes Drummer Cal Tjader...