Dizzy Gillespie

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• JAZZ MERITOCRACY. GONE?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  No, it’s not a Jimmie Lunceford original.  But I just read a newspaper profile by Rachel Swan devoted to the drummer Donald Bailey (whose work I know from recordings he made with Jimmie Rowles) where he spoke about being a young player in Philadelphia.  These words leaped out at me (italics mine): Bailey ...
  23 hours ago

• Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Salsa Meets Jazz At The Village Gate

  
  The Latin Jazz Corner — Authority: 123
  In response to last week’s article Does The Blurry Line Between Salsa and Latin Jazz Matter? , NPR’s A Blog Supreme cited promoter Art D’Lugoff’s famous concert series at The Village Gate, Salsa Meets Jazz, as an example of the blurry line. The Village Gate’s well-known event does serve as a fantastic ...
  1 day ago

• Dizzy Gillespie & Machito - Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1976)

  
  Las Cintas Recuperadas — Authority: 129
  01.Oro, Incienso Y Mirra 02.Calidoscopico 03.Pensativo 04.Exuberante. Bass [Fender] - Carlos Castillo Bongos, Cowbell - Mario Grillo Conductor, Arranged By - Chico OFarrill Congas - Pepin Pepin Drums - Mickey Roker Drums [African] - Julito Collazo , R. Hernandez French Horn - Brooks Tillotson , Don Corrado ...
  2 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie! Alumni All Stars Performing through October 26th at the Blue Note

  
  All Your Jazz — Authority: 130
  All Your Jazz sending out a remembrance of Dizzy Gillespie on what would have been his 92nd birthday. The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All Stars are celebrating with a slew of shows at the Blue Note in New York. October 20th – 26th, 2009 , the band will be performing as part of “Dizzy’s Birthday Celebration.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday Dizzy

  
  Tad's Opus 40 Blog — Authority: 91
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  3 weeks ago

• The M M & M 1000 – part 46

  
  Music Musings and Miscellany — Authority: 414
  Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. This is the first part of eight that deal with the S’s. REM – So. Central Rain / King of the Road (IRS 9927 1984) “So. Central Rain” is one of the best songs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dizzy Gillespie – Salt Peanuts

  
  too sweet for rock and roll - music birthdays blogged daily — Authority: 151
  Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 06, 1993), (nee John Birks Gillespie) American jazz trumpeter Tagged: Dizzy Gillespie, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, jazz, October 21 birthdays
  3 weeks ago

• Happy birthday, Dizzy!

  
  Pofrika — Authority: 119
  The trumpet pioneer of bop, Dizzy was one of a small group of people who defined an entire generation of music. That style featured his furious playing, alternating between infectiously simple and complex high speed phrases.He began studying the playing of Roy Eldridge. In 1937 he moved to New York and became a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doubleshot Tuesday: On The Road/The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

  
  dk presents... — Authority: 126
  [Today: Going further...]“There’s always more, a little further – it never ends,” wrote Jack Kerouac in his classic 1957 novel On The Road, an account of his cross-country adventures with fellow Beats such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. As “Dean Moriarty” (Kerouac’s publisher ...
  3 weeks ago

• October 21 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 580
  On October 21: 1520 Ferdinand Magellan discoversed what is now known as the Strait of Magellan . 1772 English poet   Samuel Taylor Coleridge  was born. 1805  The Battle of Trafalgar  took place.A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet off the ...
  3 weeks ago

• On This Date (October 17, 2007) Teresa Brewer

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 484
  Teresa Brewer (Born Theresa Breuer)May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007With some 600 recorded songs to her name, Teresa Brewer was one of America’s most prolific singers of the 1950s.  Brewer began singing and dancing as early as two years old on various radio amateur shows.  She was well at it when at just 12 [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Making the Changes

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 424
  I often find myself trying to explain to people why I love listening to Jazz. Most people either don’t know much about it or don’t like it at all, especially if it’s “modern”. The trouble is, explaining why it’s so hard to play jazz doesn’t usually make people want to go and listen to it.  “There’s ...
  8 weeks ago

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