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...The evening started with the cover of a classic, Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia”, though it had never sounded quite like this....
...As Scott describes a first visit to the Three Deuces jazz club, images of a vibrant Manhattan segue to a clip of pianist Art Tatum at the Deuces; Dizzy Gillespie was playing the club next door....
...Ahmed’s grandfather used to play trumpet with the John Dankworth Seven, Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott....
...They also broaden the Gillespie repertoire....
...It was here that Parker, Gillespie, Monk, Kenny Clarke and the other founders of bebop held their famous jam sessions, and it was here that Gillespie and Roy Eldridge, that other titan of the jazz trumpet...
...But the prize was seeing the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk in the flesh....
...His compositions incorporated new elements into established forms and he is a key link in a bravura trumpet lineage that begins with Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown and continues with the likes of Terence...
...At Monday’s Ronnie Scott’s gig, layered textures and broody themes, supported by shifting accents, beats and tones, launched a rich collective dialogue....
...The two co-leaders – James Moody and Slide Hampton on saxophone and trombone – both performed with Gillespie, and Gillespie’s one-time musical director, Bill Lee, is in the rhythm section playing acoustic...
...The pay, he recalls, was “silly” and the music “rubbish”, but it meant that he could sit in the famed Birdland for the price of a one-dollar drink, soaking up the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie...
...But, in spite of a multivariate career, he still seems caught in Gillespie’s shadow....
...We learned about Golson’s musical career, from Philadelphia jam sessions with John Coltrane in the early 1950s to playing in Dizzy Gillespie’s big band, where he learned of Clifford Brown’s untimely death...
...The club’s owners are keen to capitalise on its vault of hundreds of unheard recordings of jazz greats, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan and Buddy Rich....
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