Max Roach staging a rival event in protest at the perceived commerciality of Wein’s booking policy, which included the likes of Chuck Berry, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
Nothing, though, was as ill-advised as Wein’s attempt to incorporate rock bands like Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers and Sly & the Family Stone, causing riots and gatecrashers.
The city council banned the festival for 10 years from Newport; it would be a decade before Wein returned. The son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, George Wein was born on October 3 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, and grew up in Newton, near Boston; his father was an ENT specialist.
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