Dizzy Gillespie in Turkey, 1956
Source: "Caz'ın İçinden - Cüneyt Sermet"
Pan Publishing, 1990 (ISBN: 975-7652-08-3)
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Biographies» Dizzy Gillespie, by Carl Woideck
Carl Woideck is a proffessional jazz saxophonist and an instructor of jazz and popular music at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. I found this article on the cassette of the album "Dizzy Gillespie - Verve Jazz Masters.10 (PolyGram Records, 1994)"
As the article is some long, I scanned it ─ click each part to enlarge & read.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Articles » Dizzy Gillespie: Fast Facts (~dizzygillespie.com)
Nickname: Dizzy Gillespie
Nationality: African American (discovers direct link to African ancestry - 1959)
Religion: Baha-i (1968)
Occupation: Jazz trumpet player, composer, bandleader, singer
Date, Place of Birth: 10/21/1917 Cheraw, South Carolina
Date, Place of Death: 1/6/1993, Englewood, New Jersey
Career Highlights
· Awarded New Star Award from Esquire Magazine (1944)
· Performs at first integrated concert in public school, Cheraw, SC (1959)
· First jazz musician tappointed by US department of State to undertake cultural mission (1972)
· Awarded Handel Medallion from the City of New York (1972)
· Received Paul Robeson Award from Rtugers University Institute of Jazz Studies (1972)
· Performs at White House for President Carter and the SHah of Iran (1977)
· Performs "Salt Peanuts" with President Carter at White House Jazz Concert (1978)
· Inducted into Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1982)
· Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences 91989)
· Received National Medal of Arts from President Bush (1989)
· Received Duke Ellington Award from the society og COmposers, Authors, and Publishers (1989)
· Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 91989)
· Received Kennedy Center Honors Award (1990)
· Received fourteen honorary degrees, including Ph.D. Rutgers University (1972), Ph.D. Chicago Conservatory of Music (1978)
· Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Articles: "A Night in Tunisia"
National Public Radio Archives
September 3, 2000
F. Scott Fitzgerald gave a name to the jazz age. In the book Trimalchio, he wrote of jazz, "I know so little of music, I can only make a story of it." Dizzy Gillespie never had that problem.
Nearly 60 years ago, the young Gillespie wrote a song that remains among the most popular jazz standards around: "A Night in Tunisia." The song marked the beginning of Gillespie's unique blending of Afro-Cuban rhythms with American jazz.
Afro-Cuban Rhythms
In 1942, Dizzy Gillespie had never spent a night in Tunisia, but he was starting to travel to new places musically.
While "A Night in Tunisia" is one of Gillespie's earliest compositions, you can already hear two trademarks of his music: Afro-Cuban rhythms and his innovative approach to harmony and melody, which would fuel a jazz revolution called bebop. Gillespie's solo break on the tune remains one of the most dramatic moments in jazz.
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