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Jul 15, 2021
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I was at the Newport festival that Michaelangelo Matos mentions in his fine article about Sly & the Family Stone [August issue]. Promoter George Wein had previously ran both folk and jazz festivals at the site, but with the growing popularity of rock music he decided to feature both jazz and rock acts in this first – and last – experimental Newport Jazz and Rock festival.
The memories are hazy, but Miles Davis was definitely there, and possibly Herbie Hancock, Ten Years After and the Jeff Beck Group. As Matos relates, fans tore down the perimeter fence
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