Dizzy
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Due to technical difficulties, terrestrial listeners weren't able to listen and enjoy the program celebrating the centennial of John Birks Dizzy Gillespie back in Wednesday, December 20. So on Wednesday, January 17 @ 3 am, this program will air once again and hopefully, all listeners (both terrestrial and online) can appreciate and enjoy the genius of Dizzy.
"He was clearly one of the giants of jazz. Along with saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, he was at the forefront of the be-bop revolution. Indeed, "Bird and Diz" remain as closely associated with the bop scene as ketchup and mustard are with hamburgers, and Mr. Gillespie's trademark beret, black glasses and goatee seemed for many to define the quintessential cool of the bop era. Nor was be-bop the only innovation for which he could take credit. If Louis Armstrong can be said to have invented jazz trumpet playing, Mr. Gillespie reinvented it, pushing the instrument to its limits with his high-note acrobatics and impossibly fast runs. He brought a level of virtuosity to the instrument that few trumpeters have matched -- and even then, those who could match his technique were rarely able to equal his ideas." [JD Considine - Baltimore Sun]
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Druba
Sounds like fun! (Got to see
Sounds like fun! (Got to see Dizzy once, covered many of his tunes)
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Shirt. Sucks I missed this.
Shirt. Sucks I missed this. Can’t really say enough about Dizzy. The guy was an unbelievable trumpeter.
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No worries, Mr Timpane. Here
No worries, Mr Timpane. Here's the Archival Podcast player link:
http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_180117_030002FTSB.mp3
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Amazing figure in American
Amazing figure in American musical history. From Wiki:
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz.[3] He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan,[4] Chuck Mangione,[5] and balladeer Johnny Hartman.[6]
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".[7]
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Wait. This isn't a Tommy Roe
Wait. This isn't a Tommy Roe thread?
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>>>So on Wednesday, January
>>>So on Wednesday, January 17 @ 3 am
Sounds great but I can't tell ya the last time I was up at 3am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDPlU6ioZU
Dizzy
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy
First time that I saw you, girl, I knew that I just had to make you mine
But it's so hard to talk to you with fellas hanging round you all the time
I want you for my sweet pet
But you keep playing hard to get
Going around in circles all the time
Dizzy
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it's you, girl, making it spin
You're making me dizzy
I finally got to talk to you and I told you just exactly how I felt
Then I held you close to me and kissed you and my heart began to melt
Girl, you've got control of me
'Cause I'm so dizzy I can't see
I need…
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Cool, easy wind. Thank you.
Cool, easy wind. Thank you. Hard to imagine what jazz or American music in general would have been without Dizzy.
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I got to see Dizzy twice.
I got to see Dizzy twice. Once at the Blue Note (aka "C-Note') in the 1980's. He was wearing a Blue Leather suit, and was getting up in years. But the most memorable occasion for me was what I like to call "The Best Dead Show I never went to." The story goes when I was about 19 in 1979, the Dead were doing one of their early MSG runs, and we went, but my friend who ran on the frugal side, refused to pay the $25 scalper prices on the $8.50 tickets. Instead, he said "Let's pick up a Village Voice and see what else is going on in town." I naively said, "What's The Village Voice?" He grabbed one out of the News box and showed me an ad for Dizzy Gillespie at The Village Vanguard. I further proved my naivete by asking if that was the baseball player (I mixed him up with Dizzy Dean ~ Hey, I was 19, I had a lot of green to rub off yet!) So my buddy convinced me (reluctantly) to blow off the Dead show in favor of more economical good times. We got to the Vanguard, seated ourselves and promptly and completely had our minds blown! As if Dizzy's amazing bent-Trumpet chops were not enough, he had Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers backing his full-on musical assault. I felt like I got a Masters Degree in music studies that night! Then, at one point, Bill Cosby emerged from behind the curtain to add some cowbell to the proceedings.What a great night of music!!!
"Best Dead Show I never went to!!"