1981 July International Musician & Recording World Magazine Dizzy Gillespie

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1981 July International Musician & Recording World Magazine Dizzy Gillespie Music is your experience, yourthoughts, your wisdom, if youdon't live it, it won't come out ofyour horn.Charlie ParkerDizzy, the biggest mistake youmade was to let them name yourmusic bebop, because from thetime they name something it isdated.Duke EllingtonMusic, real music, does not datebecause it refers not to any onespecific time, but all time. Whichmeans it is about the past, present andfuture; that it may refer to bothinternal and external experiences,worlds of the distant imagination, andthose all too real. When a musician isable to express unity, diversity andspirit in every setting, display eleganceand grace under pressure, and shareour sense of wonderment at it all, theyremain vital.Dizzy changed our expectation ofsound, made a single soloist soundlike a symphony (and a quintet like anarmy); he taught a generation ofmusicians new concepts in rhythm,harmony and melody; and put on aclown's face, like Louis Armstrongand Fats Waller had done before. Areassuring, self- confident entertainer,better to lower your defenses andopen you up for the revolutionarydignity and jubilation of his music."At the time Dizzy came up, itwas necessary for black performers todo show business in addition toperforming masterfully," said WillieRuff, french horn player andcomposer. "So Dizzy took as hismodel, the master of musicalperformance, and also the King ofShow Business at that time, FatsWaller. Fats always knew that hewould have to compromise certainthings if he were to find work as FatsWaller, but he said he would nevercompromise his music. He put on theclown act to make his presentationmore palatable to the general audienceof America.When the music was new hepresented it in a manner people couldaccept," trumpeter Lester Bowie toldus. The things that Bird did . . .people couldn't quite get ready forBird. But they could get ready for Diz.Diz was more of an entertainer.Therefore, some of the things he wasdoing were more effective, because hewas a well rounded person. There area lot of aspects of a person thatcontribute to them being great. It'sbig dance bands. Their brass fantasiessoared above the surging cymbalfanfare in onomatopoetic splendor,much as they would have liked to haverisen above the oppressive turbulenceand ignorance of post-war whiteAmerica. Nevertheless, history hasproven their music and cause to beright, and were the’ truth known, theywould be as important to your livestoday as Lennon and McCartney. Theirmusical discoveries touch you just asmuch, whether you know it or not."When I first met Bird, I was with... And much more! 13900

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