De eerste keer dat Dizzy Gillespie op het Nederlands grondgebied te horen was? Deze plaat werd in September 1944 naar de Amerikaanse troepen in het veld gestuurd! Gemaakt van vinyl (wat toen nieuw was), zodat de platen niet braken. Eerste versie van de klassieker "A Night in Tunisia", ook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlV8G5xj40I

#jazz #Gillespie #78rpm

#Bebop represented the key shift from popular music to #art from. Stan Getz was initially lambasted for #JazzSamba. #Bird too for recording with strings! #LeeKonitz, of all people, was accused of abandoning the ‘true path’! James Moody, arguably among the finest players of bebop with #Gillespie’s 1965 Quintet, totally hammed it up. Un derrated #JohnHandyIII too. My view is that Bird,Moody, Handy worked through appalling, humiliating civil rights abuses. So, #SoWhat

Le studio Columbia de la 30è rue est le seul lieu où un quintette pouvait produire le son d'un grand orchestre. #Gillespie 1959

https://send.firefox.com/download/1a6573690024f81d/#Aszd5OzcjagEs2kv1qZ0-g

In 1964, #Dizzy #Gillespie promised that if he were elected, the White House would be renamed "The Blues House," and a cabinet composed of Duke Ellington (Secretary of State), Miles Davis (CIA Director), Max Roach (Secretary of Defence), Charles Mingus (Secretary of Peace), Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong (Secretary of Agriculture), Mary Lou Williams (Ambassador to the Vatican), Thelonious Monk (Travelling Ambassador) and Malcolm X (Attorney General).

https://mamot.fr/media/oiDuof-pY9vASMYqDUA

#QOTD: "It's taken me all my life to learn what NOT to play" (#Dizzy #Gillespie)

http://desguin.net/sonotheque/1_JAZZ/Dizzy%20Gillespie/catalogue.html