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Author : Lee E. Tanner
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047720407
"In this volume, Lee Tanner pays homage to Dizzy Gillespie in his seventy-fifth year, examining his career from the 1940s to the present." --Page [2] of cover.
Author : Susan Engle
Publisher : Change Maker
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161851153X
"John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was a jazz musician who pioneered the style of bebop in the 1940s. This book chronicles Dizzy's life, starting with his childhood in Cheraw, South Carolina and the racial prejudice he faced during this time. The book then recounts how one of Dizzy's teachers saw his talent and encouraged him to play trumpet and how this playing provided an escape from the constant racial prejudice surrounding him and his family. The reader then learns how Dizzy got his start as a musician in the Teddy Hill Band, the impact he made on jazz and bebop, and the many travels around the world Dizzy made before his passing on January 6, 1993. After finishing this book, the reader will gain an appreciation of the legacy of Dizzy Gillespie and the impact he made on jazz, bebop, and music as a whole"--
Author : Mary Boone
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612283487
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (October 21, 1917–January 6, 1993) was one of the most recognizable and popular figures in American jazz history. The youngest of nine children, Gillespie owed much of his success to an elementary school teacher who worked to harness his energy and anger by recruiting him for the school band—and he was hooked. His dedication and talent helped him mature into one of the country’s best trumpet players. In the 1940s, the trumpet virtuoso and respected improviser teamed up with musician Charlie Parker to lay the foundations for bebop. His beret, horn–rimmed glasses, bent horn, puffed-out cheeks, and sense of humor made him a fan favorite throughout his sixty–year career as a musical innovator, mentor, and cultural ambassador.
Author : Donald L. Maggin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060559212
Dizzy Gillespie secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. More important is that he was one of its great innovators. As a primary creator of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions, he twice changed the way improvisation was fundamentally done. And by combining electrifying musicianship, infectious warmth, and rare comedic skills, he achieved a worldwide popularity few jazz musicians have ever enjoyed. This is the enthralling saga of Dizzy Gillespie -- a chronicle of the rise of a jazz genius from the lowest rung of the social order to the highest pinnacle of respect and ability that brings Harlem's golden after-hours era, the raucous 52nd Street scene, of the forties, the barrios of Havana and Rio, the White House, and the world's great concert halls to glorious life.
Author : Tony Gentry
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870677780
With 70 pages of illustrations, this new addition to the Melrose Square Black American Series recounts the life of one of the originators of bebop and founders of modern jazz.
Author : Barry McRae
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857128287
The life and times of Dizzy Gillespie
Author : Dizzy Gillespie,Al Fraser
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : 049102276X
Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195349382
Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years. In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory. Shipton also explores the dark side of Dizzy's mostly sunny personal life, his womanizing, the illegitimate daughter he fathered and supported--now a respected jazz singer in her own right--and his sometimes needless cruelty to others. For anyone interested in jazz and one of its most innovative and appealing figures, Groovin' High is essential reading.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Housing
ISBN : MINN:30000001724685
Author : Barry McRae
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : 0946771340
Author : Ken Vail
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810848805
The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters, the series provides fascinating insight into the lives of the greatest jazz musicians of our times. No.1 in the series, Dizzy Gillespie: The Bebop Years 1937?1952, chronicles Dizzy's life from his early struggles, through the birth of bebop, the demise of his first big band, up to his departure for France in 1952.
Author : Dave Usher,Berl Falbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692211101
In Music Is Forever: Dizzy Gillespie, the Jazz Legend and Me, Dave Usher, white and Jewish, tells the story of how he, at age 14, met the jazz giant, a black man who practiced the Baha'i Faith, and forged a 50-year friendship. During those years, Dave Usher helped produce Dizzy's records, and traveled the world with him. The book saves some important jazz history and gives us important insights into Dizzy the musician and Dizzy the man. The book is praised on the back cover by three acclaimed jazz critics, Nat Hentoff, Doug Ramsey, and Alyn Shipton. Hentoff says, "All of Dizzy is here in this book." Shipton declares, ..".Usher offers us a very personal view into the life of one of America's best loved entertainers and jazz musicians." Ramsey states Usher, ..".tells the story with warmth, humor and detail that further illuminate not only the great trumpeter's genius but also his humanity."
Author : Dizzy Gillespie,Al Fraser
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042596499
Author : Michael James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873923603
Author : Raymond Horricks
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009623391
Dizzy Gillespie established himself with the big bands of Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and Earl Hines, before spearheading the bebop era in the company of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. One of the great trumpet virtuosi of jazz, he has played andrecorded with most of the big names in jazz over the past fifty years. His natural extrovert humour and personal warmth has endeared him to generations of fans worldwide.