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About Jazz Artist Guild
To celebrate the 50th year of Candid Records, we are delighted to release a Vignette digipak series of special editions by some of the top artists. Charles Mingus and the Newport Rebels is a notable album in the history of Candid. The famous Newport Jazz Festival was inaugurated in 1954 and it quickly became a huge success attracting bigger and bigger crowds and with the success came problems and finally in 1960 the bubble burst. In that year not only were the crowds getting unmanageable - resulting in riots requiring the intervention of the National Guard, but also there had developed a resentment towards the Festival by a significant number of jazz musicians. This resulted in the setting up of a rival event. Max Roach and Charles Mingus, both displaying great fortitude, decided to organise their own 'Rebel' Festival in the vast Freebody Park. For $5.00, people could lie in the grass, drink Coke and listen to the varied talents of the new 'lions' Ornette Coleman, Mingus, Max and Abbey Lincoln alongside Kenny Dorham, Jimmy Knepper, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones. Sadly the Rebel Festival went unrecorded, but Candid producer Nat Hentoff was able to gather many of the participants at a studio in New York on November 11th, 1960 to celebrate and to some extent, re-create the event. This Vignette Edition is both a tribute to everyone involved and a reminder of a most significant happening in American Jazz History and gives us a good insight on what took place in Newport, Rhode Island during those heady days - fifty years ago. The unlikely mix of Mingus, Jimmy Knepper and Dolphy with Roy, Tommy Flanagan and Jo Jones, works well. Musicians of different eras just doing what they do best!
