Nicknamed " Dizzy " because of his zany on-stage antics, Gillespie, a brass virtuoso, set new standards for trumpet players with his innovative, "jolting rhythmic shifts and ceaseless harmonic explorations" on the instrument during the 's period, which ushered in a definitive change in American Jazz music from swing to bebop. The last of nine children, Gillespie was born into a family whose father, James, was a bricklayer, pianist and bandleader. Dizzy's father kept all the instruments from his band in the family home and so the future trumpet great was around trumpets, saxophones, guitars and his father's large upright piano most of his young life.
James use to make all of his older children practice instruments but none of them cared for music. Dizzy's father died when he was ten and never heard his youngest son play trumpet, although he did get the chance to hear him banging around on the piano, because Dizzy started trying to play this instrument at a very early age. Two years later young Gillespie began to teach himself trumpet and trombone.
His musical ability enabled him to attend Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina in because the school needed a trumpet player for its band. During his years there, he practiced the trumpet and piano intensively, still largely without formal guidance. He stayed there for two years, studying harmony and theory until his family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in In Philadelphia, Gillespie began playing trumpet with local bands, learning all of his idol Eldridge's solos from records and radio broadcasts: it was in Philadelphia that he picked up his nickname of "Dizzy".
After a couple of years Gillespie moved on to Cab Calloway's band in Their revolutionary band ushered in the bebop era and was one of the greatest small bands of the 20th century.
An arranger and composer, Gillespie wrote some of the greatest jazz tunes of his era: songs such as "Groovin High", "A Night in Tunisia" and "Manteca" are considered jazz classics today. The musical papers - and even the national press - began publishing photographs of a pouting, posturing, preening Gillespie, sporting a lavish goatee beard, and invariably garbed in beret, dark glasses and an extravagant zoot suit. I hope to one day find a vintage Martin Committee 3 large bore horn, like Chris Botti, Dizzy Gillespie, and so many of the true greats played--that Committee large bore sound is just the best ever!
I was kind of surprised to see that your Dizzy Gillespie horn is made by King! These weren't necessarily considered 'professional' horns, since King catered to the student horn market, but nevertheless, it is cool to see that Dizzy chose a King to do an bent-up bell! I saw him playing this very horn with Arturo Sandoval, probably not too long before he passed away.
The tone is unmistakable and martin Committee 3 large bore all the way! The tone is slightly altered by the bent bell, but not enough to affect the horn's "signature " sound at all! The projection of the sound is very likely much improved, but in certain venues, the upturned bell might negatively affect projection--overhead microphones are really helpful with such a unique horn. I, of course, will find all this out when I start playing my "Dizzy Gillespie Special "! I just wanted to make this comment about Dizzy's horn, and my adaptation of a lowly poor old garage sale horn into a gorgeous replica of Dizzy's incredible creation that occurred quite by accident in !
Thank you for your time! Rick "C-6 " Delair. Rick Delair Mon, See our privacy policy. Collections Search Search for Gillespie's own big band, which performed from to , was his masterpiece, affording him scope as both soloist and showman. He became immediately recognizable from the unusual shape of his trumpet, with the bell tilted upward at a degree angle—the result of someone accidentally sitting on it in , but to good effect, for when he played it afterward, he discovered that its new shape improved the instrument's sound quality, and he had it incorporated into all his trumpets thereafter.
Gillespie composed most of the album's recordings, including "Serenade to Sweden" and "Johnny Come Lately. More than a decade later, in , he received the Kennedy Center Honors Award. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Aiming to introduce the energy and harmonic complexity of bebop to an enlarged format, the big band recordings form a noteworthy part of the Dizzy Gillespie discography.
It complements the mood of the album perfectly, as Gillespie and alto saxophonist Leo Wright playfully trade over the melody in a relaxed manner. The legendary jazz trumpet player was born in South Carolina in as the youngest of 9 children and, with a bandleader as a father, was playing from the age of four.
With Roy Eldridge as an early idol, he went on to study music on a scholarship before picking up his first professional gig playing with the Frank Fairfax Orchestra in From there, he graduated to performing with many of the most respected musicians of the day, as well as writing and arranging for his own groups.
Many of the most iconic images of Dizzy Gillespie show him playing his trademark trumpet, with the bell bent upwards at a 45 degree angle. Dizzy discovered that he preferred the sound after the accident and so had bespoke trumpets made from there on out with the distinctive style.
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