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Vor 3 Tagen · The Dizzy Gillespie band played at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival. Their performance was recorded and released in an album titled Dizzy for President . On stage, the band performed one of Gillespie’s most famous numbers, “Salt Peanuts,” which had been reworked in a version titled “Vote Dizzy,” and included such lyrics as ...
Vor 3 Tagen · May 17, 2019. Dizzy Gillespie – “King Porter Stomp” by Brian Zimmerman. On this day (May 17) in 1937, trumpeter John Birks Gillespie — better known by his nickname, Dizzy — made his first known recording, appearing with the Teddy Hill NBC Orchestra on the Jelly Roll Morton tune “King Porter Stomp” for RCA Records.
Vor 3 Tagen · “Disorder at the Border” is one of the most forward-thinking tracks from these sessions, which also premiered Gillespie’s “Woody ‘N You” and Budd Johnson’s “Bu-Dee-Daht.”
Vor 2 Tagen · It’s told by Paul Cerra in his Jazz Profiles blog: Desmond’s remains were cremated, and his friend, “Jimmy Lyons, the one-time San Francisco disc jockey and founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, took the urn containing Paul’s ashes and a pitcher of martinis up in an airplane over the sea off the rugged coastal stretch known as Big Sur ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Sidney Bechet’s legacy of masterpieces. “Okey Doke” is just one of the minor masterpieces of jazz that Bechet left the world. The intensity of Bechet’s opening breaks on the 1937 tune sets ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The Monterey Jazz Festival began in 1958, presenting such artists as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday, and now claims to be "the longest running jazz festival in the world" (the Newport Jazz Festival was established in 1954, but has changed venues since its founding).
Vor 4 Tagen · Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience with special guest Sharel Cassity, 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Gateway Playhouse
