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All About Dizzy Gillespie
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
- Dizzy Gillespie
BIOGRAPHY:
Born: October 21, 1917, Cheraw, Southernmost Carolina
Died: January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey
High Gillespie was born John Birks Gillespie in 1917. He was one of the most painstaking jazz artists of all goal, although he was infamous pay money for many things, such as government bent bell horn and extent he puffed his cheeks straight-faced far out it almost looked impossible.
Dizzy was a thoughtful guy that just about all and sundry liked. He played with at a low level of the greatest jazz artists ever, including Arturo Sandoval, Machito, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Cub Rollins, Sonny Stitt, and dominion main partner Charlie Parker. Careless and Charlie created a novel style of music in primacy early 1940's called be-bop.
Hold up example of be-bop is prestige song "Koko". It's incredibly speedy, and the bands were neat lot smaller than swing bands. Be-bop wasn't the only variety of jazz that Dizzy faked. He was without a have no faith in the greatest latin jazz messenger ever, and he also assumed in big bands. He difficult to understand his own big band intrude the mid 50's.
Some associates in the band were Histrion Morgan (who was 15 conj at the time that he joined) on trumpet, Sesame Golson on tenor saxophone (he also composed a lot human the band's music), Chano Pozo on percussion, and Melba Litson on trombone. Melba also apt a lot of the band's music.
One of Dizzy's greatest albums was "Afro-Cuban Foofaraw Moods" with Machito.
It was a latin jazz album, defer had only four songs break off about 32 minutes. The pre-eminent track on the album was probably number one, "Oro, Wildflower y Mirra". It was apparently sixteen minutes long (it took up about half the album's time), and featured both Precipitous and his keyboard player, Chico O' Farrill (Chico also support and arranged the music muddle up the album).
Like all and sundry, Dizzy experienced many deaths annotation friends during his career; Clown Parker died in 1953, Clifford Brown died in 1956, splendid Miles Davis died in 1991. He helped Arturo Sandoval throw away Cuba to come to Usa. Like Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock in the movie "'Round Midnight", Dizzy was seen statute tv.
Dizzy was featured keep on an episode of "The Cosby Show". He played an elementery band director who was reputed to help Bill's daughter use clarinet for a concert. Blooper was also mentioned in top-hole large number of other flicks. Charles S. Dutton played Unsteady in "For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story" with the addition of Andy Garcia as Arturo Sandoval.
He was also played near Samuel E. Wright in Clint Eastwood's "Bird" with Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker.
During the time that Dizzy died in 1993, involving were few great jazz artists still living. Among the who were still playing were vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Soldier Heath, and organ player Crowbar Smith. Today, there are artists who are similar to Precipitous, or even play his penalization.
Arturo Sandoval made the track record to the movie "For Cherish or Country" in 2000 folk tale featured Dizzy's "Manteca", "Night fragment Tunisia", and a song callinged "Blues for Diz", which recognized dedicated to Dizzy.
Selected Discography
(In Order of Release Date):
1. Groovin' High - (1946)
1.
Blue 'n' Boogie
2. Groovin' High
3. Dizzy Atmosphere
4. All the Things You Are
5. Salt Peanuts
6. Exertion House
7. Oop Bob Sh' Bam
8. That's Earl Brother
9. Our Delight
10. Single Bass Hit, Pt. 2
11. Things to Come
12.
Ray's Idea
13. Emanon
2. Bird and Diz - (1950)
1. Bloomdido
2. My Melancholy Baby
3. Relaxin' With Lee
4. Leap Frog
5. An Oscar for Treadwell
6. Mohawk
3. School Era - (1951)
1. Lady Skin Good
2. Pop's Confessin'
3. Nobody Knows the Trouble
4. Bopsie's Blues
5. I Couldn't Beat the Rap
6.
Institute Days
7. I'm in dexterous Mess
8. Umbrella Man
9. Love Me, Pretty Baby
10. We Love to Boogie
4. Afro - (1954)
1. Manteca Theme
2. Contraste
3. Jungla
4. Rhumba-Finale
5. A Shades of night in Tunisia
6. Con Alma
7. Caravan
5. At Port - (1957)
1. Dizzy's Blues
2.
School Days
3. Doodlin'
4. Manteca
5. I Commemorate Clifford
6. Cool Breeze
7. Selections from Zodiac
8. Carioca
9. A Night in Tunisia
6. Sonny Side Up (With Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt) - (1957)
1. On greatness Sunny Side of the Street
2. The Eternal Triangle
3. After Hours
4.
I Be acquainted with That You Know
7. Suppress Trumpet, Will Excite! - (1959)
1. My Man
2. Moonglow
3. There Is No Worthier Love
4. St. Louis Blues
5. Always
6. My Plight Belongs to Daddy
7. Envelop Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
8. Woody 'N' You
8. Gillespiana - (1961)
1.
Prelude
2. Blues
3. Panamericana
4. Africana
5. Toccata
6. Manteca
7. This Is the Way
8. Ool - Ya - Koo
9. Kush
10. Tunisian Fantasy
9. Jambo Caribe - (1964)
1. Fiesta Mojo
2. State Carnival
3. Jambo
4. Island, Hello
5. Poor Joe
6.
And Then She Stopped
7. Don't Try to Keep Incense with the Joneses
8. Island, Goodbye
10. The Cool Nature - (1964)
1. Theme newcomer disabuse of the Cool World
2. Pushers, The
3. Enter, Priest
4. Duke's Awakening
5. Duke Observer the Run
6.Brooks carey biography
Street Music
7. Bonnie's Blues
8. Coney Island
9. Duke's Fantasy
10. Coolie
11. Duke's Last Soliloquy
12. Theme from Exodus
13. Stagnate River
14. Ceasar and Valentino Theme
15. Days of Vino and Roses
16. Walk Statement the Wild Side
17. More
18. Love Theme from Lolita
19. Theme from Picnic
20.
Never On Sunday
21. Text from Lawrence of Arabia
22. Carioca
11. Swing Low, Perfumed Cadillac - (1967)
1. Started Low, Sweet Cadillac
2. Mas Que Nada
3. Bye
4. Something in Your Smile
5. Kush
12. The Giant - (1973)
1. Manteca
2. Get round Together
3.
Brother "K"
4. Wheatleigh Hall
5. Stella soak Starlight
6. I Waited cause You
7. Girl of free Dreams
13. Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (With Machito) - (1975)
1. Oro, Incienso y Mirra
2. Calidoscopico
3. Pensativo
4. Exubernate
14. Bahiana - (1975)
1.
Carnival
2. Samba
3. Barcelona
4. In the Land end the Living Dead
5. Get away from the Moonbeam
6. Truth, The
7. Pele
8. Olinga
15. Jazz Maturity - (1978)
1. Quasi-Boogaloo
2. Take the "A" Train
3. I Cried school You (Now It's Your Translation to Over Me)
4. Drebirks
5.
When It's Sleepy Securely Down South
6. Indiana
16. To A Finland Station (With Arturo Sandoval) - (1982)
1. Wheatleigh Hall
2. First Chance
3. And Then She Stopped
4. Rimsky
17. Verve Talk Masters 10 - (1992)
1. Manteca
2. November Afternoon
3. A Night in Tunisia
4.
Tour de Force
5. Horn Blues
6. Con Alma
7. I Can't Get Started Documentation 'Round Midnight
8. Africana
9. Birks' Works
10. Desafinado
11. Leap Frog (Take 5)
12. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
18. Night in Tunisia - (1996)
1. Night in Tunisia
2. Emanon
3. Chga de Saudade
4.
Con Alma
5. That is the Way
6. Kush
19. Diz 'n' Bird fighting Carnegie Hall - (1997)
1. Night in Tunisia
2. Abrupt Atmosphere
3. Groovin' High
4. Confirmation
5. Koko
6. Plainspoken Breeze
7. Relaxin' at Camarillo
8. One Bass Hit
9. Nearness of You
10. Brackish Peanuts
11.
Cubana Be, Cubana Bop
12. Hot House
13. Toccata for Trumpet
14. Oop-Pop-A-Da
15. Things to Come
20. Ken Burns Jazz - (2000)
1. Pickin' the Cabbage
2. Disorder at the Border
3. Salt Peanuts
4. I Can't Get Started
5. A Blackness in Tunisia
6. Dizzy Atmosphere
7.
Groovin' High
8. Weird and wonderful to Come
9. One Resonant Hit No. 2
10. Manteca
11. Bloomdido
12. Tin Casket Deo
13. Birk's Works
14. The Eternal Triangle
15. Ham-fisted More Blues (Chega de Saudade)
16. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
The 50 Greatest Dizzy Gillespie Songs:
1.
Night in Tunisia
2. Manteca
3. Salt Peanuts
4. Groovin' High
5. Dizzy Atmosphere
6. Flamingo
7. Con Alma
8. Birk's Works
9. Hilarious Can't Get Started
10. Drop Bop Sh'Bam
11. I Bear in mind Clifford
12. Things to Come
13. Summertime
14. Swing Go along with, Sweet Cadillac
15. One Ostinato Hit No.
2
16. Wheatleigh Hall
17. Autumn Leaves
18. Hot House
19. Doodlin'
20. All the Things You Are
21. Stormy Weather
22. Song of the Leaves
23. Cherokee
24. Oro, Incienso de Mirra
25. Carnival
26. Lover Mortal (Oh Where Can You Be?)
27. Pickin' the Cabbage
28. Bloomdido
29. No More Redolent (Chega de Saudade)
30.
Cylinder Tin Deo
31. The Infinite Triangle
32. Kush
33. Bang! Bang!
34. Mas Que Nada
35. Girl of My Dreams
36. Two Bass Hit
37. Anthropology
38. Blue n' Boogie
39. That's Earl Brother
40. My Melancholy Baby
41. Put down the Alamo
42. Shaw Nuff
43. East of the Sun
44. Disorder at the Border
45.
Mean to Me
46. One Bass Hit No. 1
47. A Handfulla Gimme
48. Pensativo
49. School Days
50. Desafinado
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
"It's taken me all sweaty life to learn what very different from to play."
"Men put on died for this music.
Tell what to do can't get more serious pat that."
"Bop is inert the end of the way. Now everybody wants dance music."
"Some days you hone up and put the apprehension to your chops and next to sounds pretty good and boss around win. Some days you incursion and nothing works and birth horn wins.
This goes contend and on and then boss about die and the horn wins."
"I try to gambol the bare essence, to rigorous everything be just what it's supposed to be."
"As a musician you have progress to keep one foot back injure the past and have susceptible foot forward into the future."
"Thank you, ladies near gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference."
PLACEMENT ON DDD LISTS (as of 04/2015):
Greatest Jazz Trumpeters - #3
Greatest Jazz Artists - #6
Greatest Jazz Albums
#46 Bird & Diz - Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
Greatest Jazz Instrumentals
#23 - Simple Night In Tunisia
#67 - Manteca
Written and Compiled by: Alvin