Great Performances; 1419; Dizzy Gillespie: An All Star Tribute to the Jazz Master

This. Is. Me. Plus I actually. Knew that one or two people can count on. And marketing an area dedicated to excellence aerospace electronics information management materials. Great performances is also made by the corporations of public broadcasting. The National Endowment for the arts this station. Tonight. From. Farm Park for the Performing Arts America's national park. Part. Of the youth. Of America. Living. Legends of jazz. As we celebrate his 70th birthday. John you have your list you need to be.

Busy. Tonight. We salute a career that spans five decades and for. Jazz musicians. Young and old from all around the world. They come together. To join this celebration for one of the. 20th Century American music. The one and only Dizzy Gillespie. Will. Is coming to join me. Wolf. So you Dizzy Gillespie. And all star tribute to the Masters. On this day June 5th 1987. You might have called it the Jazz train. It was the day before the concert and many of the most respected names in jazz had joined dizzy for the trip down the threat. From. New York. To. A

party for Dizzy Gillespie head of Sicily. Among those present is Jazz trained. Mickey Meraux. David Amoraim family crime and McRee disease not the right. The Right Way. He's using. Words. Like a fox. Walter Davis Jr. was seated on the left. Charlie PERSIB family and John Fedor's. Honor. And privilege. Are sitting there very happily. Jimmy Owens. And. Hank. I can't think of anybody. Who's. Heard. More of the. Same man.

And I he wrote a play. I. Haven't rehearsed that. Over. The next 36 hours. Were filled with joy shared memories and warm reversals. And then around 9 p.m. June 6 1987. Before a sellout. Crowd. One of them. Remarkable. Forget. You. Ever. See them. Performing. Do you think. You do. It For. Fun. Too easy. Disease professional career began in 1937 he composed a

19 amusia just five years later. It has been a part of his standard repertoire ever since. This 1947 radio program is one of the earliest known recordings. And he too was performed live before a sellout crowd. Over the years the ever present media assumed different flavors such as a Latin rhythm. Now in this performance from the mid-1970s. It.

Might. Be. The start of what can best be described as disease golden age. It was in that year that he composed a night in Tunisia as well as his other most famous work. The early 40s had been a time for swing. And all the famous swing

back in the time of Benny Goodman. Lionel Hampton. Count Basie. Duke Ellington. And Tommy Dorsey. It was also the time when Ted Callaway. Reached his. Peak in a. Bandleader. As an extraordinary performance. During the late thirties and early forties. Dizzy Gillespie played with a Kellaway band as well as with the earl Heinies and Billy Eckstein orchestra. Jazz was in its heyday. And a major center of it all was a single blague a 50 second speed and you know in the jazz world. Simply. The street. While people were listening to swing a new sound called bebop or emerging from the street. Three men stand out as leaders of this new movement saxophonist Charlie Parker

pianist Colonial's monk and of course John Birks Gillespie dizzy. Whose name from that. Point forward. Would always be linked. To. Somebody. On the. Floor. Be. Aware of. All. Of. The blog my body. Be. Aware of. And now from this stage of Wolf Trap Filina center a salute to Bob Benny Carter JJ Johnson Hank Jones Wynton Marsalis Mickey Roker and Rufus Reed. Perform works with. Things.

In. This. Book. Like we.

Can. See. ON. This one

thing. To. For. Us. Do our own thing.

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I can. I. See. Eye. I. Can. Go.

On. To the. Discreet. In the same year he met the Cuban drummer who entered a new dimension to disease music. I knew what I wanted. When the agent told me I organized a big band I want to play one man for me had a book that simply. From 1970 47 1949 channel pozole a great deal conga player from Cuba came to North America and played with this band until his untimely death in

1949. And channel pozole brought some of the beautiful rhythmic. Patterns from the traditions of Afro-Cuban music. And he would spend an enormous amount of time together and he would learn the clothing and the rhythms after Channel Pozo died. Disease introduced him Afro-Cuban rhythms significantly in 1977. Dizzy Broga 14 year U.S. trade embargo by performing in Cuba. We were the first musicians in 1977 to go to Cuba in 14 years during the Carter administration. We were sent out Dizzy Gillespie band Earl Hines band Stan gets his group and my little group. And. When we got there. People waiting. For it to. Send. Out. And now the Cuban rhythms are busy.

Making. A. Movie. On. The.

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on. I'm. Sure. I'll go on. Now I live in 1948 Dizzy's banner year.

1948 saw the Dizzy Gillespie band being recorded on film and being named band of the year by a metronome magazine. It also saw the first of many triumphal tours. And a more triumphant return home. There wasn't even an international Dizzy Gillespie fan club. The. Tour led to a feature in Life magazine. The entire country indeed the world was bebop crazy. It didn't last long. By the early 50s bebop was falling out of favor. By the mid 50s it was out of vogue. Nevertheless to events in business life there are many. The. First occurred in 1953. Fresh from the pool. And then the

trumpet that had a this raise about this week that wasn't quite the degree that mine is. But. I found out when I wrote that we had a pod for my wife and some fell fellow and the horn didn't fall back. And when I got back I played it. It was really a revolution. You can hear the moment that the note comes out. Yeah. The. Lady. Down here. Is. A second major event occurred in 1956. Adam Clayton Powell joined dizzy for an announcement from Washington D.C.. That was so. Cool. Cool.

Dizzy was about to tour the Middle East. The State Department asked Dizzy to be America's. Goodwill Ambassador. Not unexpectedly. It was a roaring success and upon his return he and his wife Lorraine were featured on one of America's favorite TV programs. He and I were just talking about your craft. How did you like that. After returning from the Middle East for two weeks in the U.S. He was about to hit the road again this time to South America. To no one's surprise the trip to South America was even more successful than the previous one. Disease improved in Afro-Cuban and Latin rhythms found a happy home in Brazil Argentina and other South American ports of call. And a very real sense. He was now a citizen of the world and was welcomed by standing room only audiences were everywhere. And now floral

podium to read. Eddie Gomes Mike Shapiro Freddie Hubbard Nicky Marrero and David. OLIVER. So do it with. God's eyes. Being. As

young. As. You're going. To be. Like.

We are doing. Something. People. Is

going to be. Able.

To. Earn. Something. In. Our.

Dizzy Gillespie was a legend. In. Spring. In 1964 even ran for president. He didn't win but in 1978 he performed with President. CLINTON.

Throughout his long and illustrious career. Dizzy Gillespie constantly learning new sounds. All. He assimilates those new songs into his own music and while he's learning he's also teaching the. Good people he told the truth. You might not understand His first but later on since then things are sinking in now. He told me back in 1947 about it a lot. BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG. Yeah.

Of course other trumpet players come to him at every turn. Everybody who's played trumpet says him because he's. Extended the harmonic and rhythmic proposition's of the trumpet in American music. You play trumpet. In jazz influenced by does. He. Does. He taught me how to to. Play a certain amount of passages back which is what you call auxilary finger.

And in fact there are certain passages that one can play. The. Less they do use the style of thing that he teaches that. He. Can't be. Sure what the spirit of that thing is.

I'm told. You. Start. One. Up. When I finish playing what I'll be. Doing some the fundamentals around music the bottom and letting them go for me. And now John Faddis Freddie Hubbard went. Along. On. Board. For. This. Song. This song

right. Thing. It. Is. The respect and admiration of virtually everyone in the street no longer exists. But. As to the friendships that build up throughout his career. Some of his friends have left this world but they're still.

Celebrating. Yes. Of all the late jazz giants whose lives were touched by Dizzy. There is one in particular whose presence was missed during the salute. Met her when I was with Callaway and I heard him play. That's the way it's supposed to go. Well he wasn't the president but his spirit permeated the whole program. His spirit was all there was. One film performance why does he and Parker survive.

Recorded in the early 1950s. All the people who attended this Wolf Trap so you can truly consider themselves disease friends. Some are very special friends such as the saxophonist Jean moody. You know exactly what I want. And that's what he does and I love. I can't think of anyone I'd love to play with.

What's. Wrong for. 40 a day doesn't go by that. I know what I said. You know the same with me. A day doesn't go by I don't think a day does not go by that I don't think of it. Let's play with James Wardy. Is playing with the time. For.

Myself. And now dizzy and moody along with John Hendrix Cecil Payne slide him and John faddist Charlie Bursey and Mike along performing for de. La. La. La. La. La. La. La. La. La. La. La la. La. La. La. La. La. All.

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plays golf we never know what the hell is. And he's always been one of my favorite musicians. Sonny. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa

wait wrong. That sort of thing at I'm going to hang

on to. This thing. I'm going to. I'm saying. I'm

going. To. I've been I've. Been I've heard you sing. Sing.

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See. What. Really matters is come. Craig.

Is like playing with another musician musician your mom it's your rhythm since she knows she played the piano. She knows because she knows when you make a wrong note here. That note is not in the chord. My idea is he knows it's special but he's a man who. Wants. You know. He plays and he's absolutely in my opinion the best. Bits of data we have today. And he does stop. And he's 70 years old. That's better than ever. This. Is a man. Of a

beautiful friendship in the moment. Go. To. This. And show us. A great beautiful friday. Oh my heart his soul. We have always been just like. Since. The day when we love each other. And this is the hand. Of friendship. That's.

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I. Was. At. So we come to be good. So you. Would humbly but I'd consider myself one of these friends and I join all those assembled here this evening. Happy Birthday. Here's. A new big band arrangement of. That. Song. Especially

for Disney and for me. By. Bruce. Willis. I mean. I.

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