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Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy For President

by Derek Taylor
March 1, 2000

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 ...

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Sweet Soul Live

By Dizzy Gillespie

Label: Green Line SRL
Released: 1999

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Toots Sweet

by AAJ Staff
February 22, 1999

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 ...

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The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party

By Dizzy Gillespie

Label: Shanachie Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Salt Peanuts, Fiesta Mojo, Birk

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The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party

Read "The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 1998

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 ...

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