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Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy For President
by Derek Taylor
Gifted with one of the most amiable stage presences in the business Dizzy could work a crowd into a frenzy not only with the fireworks from his horn, but also with his glib vocal antics. Both are on sizable display during this concert taped at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Playing the audience with the same virtuosic ...
Toots Sweet
by AAJ Staff
When most people think of the harmonica, they usually picture Ackroyd and Belushi soulin' it up in black suits, southern fried wah-wah blues or a scene from within a jail cell at state prison. Now that's not jazz. But, one man managed to create something unique with the harmonica that no one could ever imagine in ...
The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party
Label: Shanachie Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Salt Peanuts, Fiesta Mojo, Birk
The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party
by C. Michael Bailey
A few years preceding John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie's death in 1993 through the present have seen the release of several tribute discs to the creator of Modern Jazz. The majority of these recordings have been basically live jam sessions with some moments of interesting music, but for the most part they are a self-indulgent bore. It ...
