Bahaichap
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I put together the following compendium of prose and poetry in memory of Dizzy Gillespie who died 22 years ago this month. Readers who are not particularly interested in one of jazz's greatest practitioners, and readers who have trouble with long posts are advised to skim or scan, or stop reading now.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie(1917-1993) was an American jazz composer, trumpeter, bandleader, and occasional singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge. But he added layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz. I met Gillespie in his hotel-room in Perth Western Australia circa 1990 several years before he died, and gave him a prose-poem I had written. I was just at the beginning of my own creative and literary life, a literary life in which improvisation has been a central factor in my work....For more of my commemorative piece on this great jazz practitioner go to: http://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?36522-Dizzy-Gillespie-A-Retrospective
The above post needs to be highlighted in order to be read, but I don't know how to do so.-Ron
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I put together the following compendium of prose and poetry in memory of Dizzy Gillespie who died 22 years ago this month. Readers who are not particularly interested in one of jazz's greatest practitioners, and readers who have trouble with long posts are advised to skim or scan, or stop reading now.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie(1917-1993) was an American jazz composer, trumpeter, bandleader, and occasional singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge. But he added layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz. I met Gillespie in his hotel-room in Perth Western Australia circa 1990 several years before he died, and gave him a prose-poem I had written. I was just at the beginning of my own creative and literary life, a literary life in which improvisation has been a central factor in my work....For more of my commemorative piece on this great jazz practitioner go to: http://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?36522-Dizzy-Gillespie-A-Retrospective
The above post needs to be highlighted in order to be read, but I don't know how to do so.-Ron
[Admin edit: altered font colour for more readable format]
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