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Dizzy Gillespie A Quick Look at the Master
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When thinking of great trumpet players one often remembers such names as Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis… The subject of this paper however is whom I believe to be the greatest that ever lived, the one and only Dizzy Gillespie.
Dizzy was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children in a relatively poor family, and dubbed John Birks Gillespie on October 21, 1917. His father James was a local bandleader and so instruments were always readily available in the Gillespie household. By the age of four, Dizzy was able to play the piano and by the age of ten his musical skills earned him a scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. ... It was here that his lightning fast playing went to work and earned him the nickname “Dizzy”.
Just two years later, in 1937, Dizzy joined up with Teddy Hill’s Orchestra in New York, filling the spot that was previously held by Eldridge. ... Here Dizzy had started to emerge as soloist, and he started to grab people’s attention. Calloway however wasn’t fond of Dizzy’s style and often called his solos “Chinese music”. Needless to say Dizzy wasn’t in the orchestra for long. In 1941 Calloway was hit in the face by a spitball, and promptly fired Dizzy (the actual culprit was Jonah Jones).
For the next two years Dizzy again went to freelancing, recording with anyone and everyone including: Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Charlie Barnet, Fess Williams, Les Hite, Claude Hopkins, Lucky Millinder and Duke Ellington. ...
By now Dizzy had pretty well developed Bebop with the help of musicians such as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk, and had written his most famous composition, “A Night in Tunisia”. ... Some of the songs he arranged included "Groovin High," "Manteca," "Woody `n You," "Con Alma," and "Salt Peanuts", all of which were credited in whole or in part to Dizzy.
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Title: Dizzy Gillespie A Quick Look at the Master
Words: 1558
Rating: None
Pages: 6.2
submitted by: mrochukr
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