C&L's Late Night Music Club with Dizzy Gillespie
By Stella Barkwell Sunday Mar 01, 2009 9:00pmDizzy Gillespie was one of the trumpet playing greats. Probably the only guy that surpasses Diz’s playing is John Faddis. This fact was confirmed by Gillespie himself.
Judge for yourself. At the end of this version of ‘Night in Tunisia’ Gillespie and Faddis trade fours and eights ‘til you want to cry. It’s a beautiful thing, a call and response, a conversation between mentor and protégé.
This was Dizzy’s Dream Band, recorded at Lincoln Center in 1982.
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loved his redition of on golden pond
Caravan
I wish I'd gone to one of his shows when he was here.
Just wondering if you know who was playing the fiddle there ... he's really good!
But I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Clark Terry, t; Ray Nance, t, vn; Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Willie Smith, as; Russell Procope, as, cl; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl, bcl; Duke Ellington, p; Wilbur Marshall, b; Louis Bellson, d.
On edit, click the link
Thanks for the heavy lifting, m_k. I'm not up to it tonight.
and it's been transcribed to teh internets...
I just thought you might know off-hand ... I don't want you to have to do research tonight!
ps, thanks, miss_kitty, for your help :)
and pps, mudshark, I'm going to listen to your newest additions now ... :)
Definitely !!!!!!
This ain't school, after all! We're all here to have fun, right?
Have a great day, Andy!
:)
This is the Dizzy Gillespie Dream band.. not the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
I thought it was in reference to the heading video of Diz. I'll hush now.
I put up the list for a song Andy K posted in the thread and I was tired so I was googling to find the violinist after I posted and just left it up, in case anyone was interested in other session players on Andy's vid...That was a list from the actual session BTW.
I think on the Dizzy thing, the dream band is listed, and they had a chyron to name any soloist.
Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean a Thing (1943)
Thanks, miss_kitty! I love those old-style musical classics!
That was just freaking awesome! Truly a masterpiece!
Blue Train
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Swan Blues
It can't be done. Funny, I was just thinking of him a few days ago.
I'm gonna pst someone different.
It's not jazz.
But none the less, it's pretty good.
John Butler. I Used To Get High.
This title is misleading. This John Butler tune isn't bad.
John Butler is one talented guy!
Time for me to hit the hay ... I just did the nightly herding of my cats into the house so they can wake me up in the middle of the night ...
Thanks for all the fine tunes this evening, everybody ... always mucho appreciated!
I think this will work too.
Ella and Satchmo. Dream a Little Dream Of Me.
Enjoy folks.
and I did enjoy that so very much!
Summertime.
Sweet Ella. Queen Ella.
Summertime
This song is a classic and The Zombies' rendition ranks up there with Miss Ella's take on it, imho.
Thanks!
I recommend watching the whole thing but clicking this link should skip you right to the tap sequence.
BTW, awesome vid...
Just add #t=2m15s to the end of the link to make it start at 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk - Oslo 1966
Thanks NRK (I'm assuming this was on NRK) for letting him play long.
With a special guest.
His special guest is da bomb!
and I just love those high notes ... Brilliant!
Paquito d' Rivera.
Tito Puente.
Be well folks. Ga nite.
dizzy - trumpet
bird - alto
trane - tenor
monk - piano
elvin - drums
haden - bass
patrick - baritone
zawinul - synth
mclaughlin - guitar
pascol - precussion
ra - arranger
STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn that was fine . . . . for all the reasons ya said it was. But the rest of the band names pretty much would fill up any hall of fame, and the trombones with women holding it down . . . this clip has some serious history and life stuff in it, beyond the licks.
And the damned music alone is of the galaxies . . .
Thanks so much for sharing this . . . I'm sending it other places, and will refer back to your linky love here, at C&l . . . . . and I thought Butterfield, Bloomfield, Biship N Naftlin could swap licks. This is just a bit beyond that . . . . chart wise . . *G*
The tempo changes alone kill me . . . as the song always has . . but this version is special.
Again, thanks. {bows}
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STUFF SMITH and his Onyx club Boys 1936 - yous a viper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUla5dlZeto&fe...
Stuff Smith - Oh Lady be good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEDaF_kcb54&fe...
Thank you for the treats!
and not even high! Thank you for the great post. Rosetta's "Reefer Head Woman" is another beauty but I don't know if it has been reissued.
I always preferred Art Blakey's version.
They're playing like they can't push the notes out of their horns fast enough.
while Jon Faddis is a wonderful musician, no one would rank him as a peer to Dizzy who was an innovator and helped create a new language for improvisation - bebop. Jon was Dizzy's protege and they had great mutual respect, but would never say that he surpassed Dizzy. His early playing as seen in the video is so influenced by Dizzy that people used to complain that all he did was copy Diz's solos. That said, this is wonderful video fo a great band.
By the way, the band members that I can see are: Frank Foster -ts, Paquito D'Rivera - as, Jimmy Heath - ts, and I beleive Pepper Adams - bs. I also think that one of the women on trombone is the great Melba Liston and that the pianist is Walter Bishop.
Hope this helps.
Full disclosure: Relatively speaking, I have little knowledge about music. I worked in a jazz club once and grew up listening to music intently. I still listen to music intently. Took some music lessons, but not much.
I'm working darn hard not to look foolish with my lack of knowledge here, since nearly every other writer on C&L has played professionally or had music lessons for years, so it's really not hard for me to feel dopey about my lack of knowledge in music. I'm just an appreciater of many kinds of music. And I think about it all the time.
For me, no one beats the original -- you'll get no argument from me on that. I was going by what the master himself reportedly said about Faddis's playing.
Maybe he was being generous. I don't know.
:)
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