Dizzy Gillespie sported one of the most popular examples of the 1950s facial hair trend and was protective of his soul patch. "Why must you wear a goatee to play good hot horn?" he said. "Strictly utilitarian, man... strictly utilitarian! Nothing faddish about it...
Dizzy Gillespie sported one of the most popular examples of the 1950s facial hair trend and was protective of his soul patch. "Why must you wear a goatee to play good hot horn?"he said. "Strictly utilitarian, man... strictly utilitarian! Nothing faddish about it. ...
He works through a diverse set of standards (Charlie Parker’s “Donna Lee,” Dizzy Gillespie’s “Tanga,” “How High The Moon,” and Green’s “Out of Nowhere,” with support from a percussion section that includes jazz drummer Donald “Duck” Bailey, and a quartet of Senegelese ...
Just as Dizzy Gillespie codified bebop language with a big band in the 1940s and ‘50s, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra did likewise with post-bebop language, including the modal jazz of John Coltrane and the like. Even more importantly, they had anemotionalimpact: on aspirituallevel, th...
Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, and European impressionism. As NPR reports, “Danilo Perez is a man with some serious jazz cred. The Panamanian pianist got his start playing with Dizzy Gillespie and continued with Wayne Shorter. As a composer and bandleader himself,...
So the financial sense of having the venue open to get a touring band that can only play to 25 percent capacity is unclear. What are you looking forward to most about shows returning? Lapan: The moment when I’m at the show and realize, “Oh, they just did half the set and I ...
“When I think about the founders — all the geniuses and men of accomplishment — I think of them in terms of the first be-boppers: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk. They were working out fundamentals of an idea of a way to play that featured very, very quick thinking,...
play without vibrato. Davis played with jazz bands in the St. Louis area before moving toNew York Cityin 1944 to study at the Institute of Musical Art (now theJuilliard School)—although he skipped many classes and instead was schooled through jam sessions with masters such asDizzy Gillespie...
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not worthy of being in Parker’s band. The novelist Gilbert Sorrentino was in the audience for one of the performances with Parker and said, “He (Davis) probably hit more clinkers than any other trumpeter of his time.” If Davis was truly such a poor player, what did Parker see in ...