ROAD MAPS TO THE MIND Episode IV (07/05/2021): New Thing at Newport
Dig it, daddy-o! This week on Road Maps to the Mind, we check out the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival.
1969: before Manson, the moon landing, and Woodstock, there was the Newport Jazz Festival. It went down on a Fourth Of July weekend with a truly memorable lineup of heavy hitters, including Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, James Brown…what a scene! Worlds collided when festival bigwig George Wein controversially added rock & roll acts to the festival bill for “an evening of jazz rock.”
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This week’s cuts feature acts from that iconic year, following the festival from the first night, July 3rd, through the final evening: a “mixed bag,” sponsored by Schlitz brewing company. I even dug up some actual performances for ya! Crack open a cold can of Schlitz, tune in, and check it out.
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- “Somebody Else’s World” — Sun Ra Solar Arkestra
- “Arietis” — Freddie Hubbard
- “Wack Wack” — Young-Holt Unlimited
- “Women of the World” — Jimmy Smith
- “A Night In Tunisia” — Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
- “God Bless the Child” — Blood, Sweat & Tears
- “The Inflated Tear” — Roland Kirk
- “Going To Try” — Ten Years After
- “Dharma For One” — Jethro Tull
- “Wild Thing” — Steve Marcus
- “I Ain’t Superstitious” — Jeff Beck
- “Sunshine Of Your Love” — Frank Zappa
- “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” — Miles Davis
- “Interim I” — Gary Burton
- “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” — The World’s Greatest Jazz Band
- “I’m An Animal” — Sly & the Family Stone
- “I’m Satisfied, Mr. Captain” — The Savage Rose
- “Mother Popcorn (Parts i & ii)” — James Brown
- “Psychedelic Blues” — Willie Bobo
- “Fat Albert Rotunda” — Herbie Hancock
- “Rotten Kid” — Buddy Rich
- “Every Day I Have the Blues” — Johnny Winter and B.B. King
- “Dazed and Confused” — Led Zeppelin
…for a detailed history of the ’69 Newport Jazz Festival, check out Rob Shepard’s “Electric Aquidneck Experiment, 1969” (https://postgenre.org/newport-jazz-part-vi/). information and resources for this episode were also pulled from Rhode Island Rocks (rirocks.net).
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