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BackTalk: George Wein

May 1, 1999 by: Roger Hahn

If you're lucky enough to be at the Fair Grounds this year on the first Friday, you can see and hear one of those musicians, under the billing of George Wein and the Newport All-Stars playing in the Economy Hall tent, having the time of his life behind the ivories, leading the band and tearing it up with some of the finest swing musicians he knows, This same fellow, unassuming, jovial, in all ways an average kind of guy, also is responsible for practically inventing the concept of the musi...

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