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George Wein (born October 3, 1925) is an American jazz promoter and producer who has been called "the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player... in jazz history".〔("George Wein: Dinosaur Walks the Earth" ) AllAboutJazz.com interview, June 2000, Retrieved on April 1, 2007.〕 He is the founder of what is probably the best-known jazz festival in the United States, the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. He also co-founded the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel. ==Life== Wein was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1925, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Barnet M. Wein, both ethnically Jewish.〔Souther, Jonathan Mark ''New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City''. p. 119.〕 A graduate of Newton High School, Wein was a jazz pianist in his youth and while studying at Boston University led a small group which played professionally around the Boston area. After serving in the army during World War II, he graduated from Boston University's College of Liberal Arts in 1950.〔Josephs, Larry (9 September 1954) "Boston Beat". ''Jewish Advocate''. p. 2.〕〔"George Wein Named Honorary Newport Citizen". (4 August 1966) ''Jewish Advocate''. p. 4.〕 That same year, he opened a jazz club called Storyville and established a Storyville record label. He also began to teach a course at Boston University on the history of jazz. In 1954, Newport residents Louis and Elaine Lorillard invited Wein to organize a festival in their hometown of Newport, Rhode Island, with funding to be provided by them; the subsequent festival was the first outdoor jazz festival in the United States,〔 and became an annual tradition in Newport. Wein went on to start a number of festivals in other cities, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, and also established the Newport Folk Festival. In the 60s he set up Festival Productions, a company dedicated to promoting large-scale jazz events. George Wein married Joyce Alexander in 1959. Wein pioneered the idea of corporate sponsorship for his events, and his "Schlitz Salute to Jazz" and "Kool Jazz Festival" were the first jazz events to feature title sponsors – Schlitz beer and Kool cigarettes. Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo. Other title sponsors of Festival Productions events include Mellon Bank, Essence Magazine, Verizon, Ben & Jerry's, and Dunkin' Donuts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Wein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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