Dizzy Gillespie
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time
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Dizzy Gillespie Interview PART 1 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlnGZyZuozI
Dizzy Gillespie Interview PART 2 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBDS_cqjjA
Dizzy Gillespie Interview PART 3 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tesII4cAikk
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Hot House - 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTrx0hL1ag
Thelonious Monk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (/θəˈloʊniəs/, October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight," "Blue Monk," "Straight, No Chaser," "Ruby, My Dear," "In Walked Bud," and "Well, You Needn't." Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.
His compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations.
Monk was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats, and sunglasses. He was also noted for an idiosyncratic habit observed at times during performances: While the other musicians in the band continued playing, he would stop, stand up from the keyboard, and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano.
Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine, after Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Duke Ellington and before Wynton Marsalis
thelonious monk - don't blame me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KshrtLXBdl8
Blue Monk, Thelonius Monk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40V2lcxM7k
Thelonious Monk - April in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkhpbJtItI
Thelonious Monk - Japanese Folk Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD1p95nyeEc
photos Thelonius Monk
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Thelonious Monk and Me
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/10/thelonious-monk-and-me/
By Fred Hersch October 10, 2017 ON MUSIC
In honor of the centennial of Thelonious Monk’s birth, the jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch shares a few thoughts on one of his heroes
The Secret Life of Thelonious Monk
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/03/the-secret-life-of-thelonious-monk/38128/
Thelonious Monk's surreally strange and spartan genius gets its due
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/12/thelonious-monk-sureally-strange-and-spartan-genius-gets-its-due-john-fordham
Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk!
http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/today-in-jazz/happy-birthday-thelonious-monk/
Thelonious Monk Live In Berlin 1969 (Solo Piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbLRaaqrCc
Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Giants Of Jazz Copenhagen 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUVuX3lLrdg
King B-Flat Trumpet, used by Dizzy Gillespie
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_606128
Dizzy Gillespie for president: When politics was a groovier thing
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/22/dizzy-gillespie-forpresident.html
photos Dizzy Gillespie
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Music 1917 Dizzy Gillespie is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dizzy-gillespie-is-born
Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrUBEtoNQU