{"id":10459,"date":"2018-10-21T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:42:56","slug":"dizzy-gillespie-at-99-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/10\/dizzy-gillespie-at-99-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy Gillespie At 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dizzy-gillespie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dizzy-gillespie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dizzy-gillespie.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dizzy-gillespie-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit late in the day, but not too late to say happy birthday to Dizzy Gillespie fans and millions of listeners who may not be aware that much of their favorite music would not exist if John Birks Gillespie hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t helped bring it out of the swing era. His spirit and example, and his partnership with Charlie Parker, are still modernizing jazz, as they were in 1946 when Gillespie recorded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Emanon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HJ_UZN5msRw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">November 12, 1946, New York. &#8221;\u00a0Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Burns, Elmon Wright, Matthew McKay, John Lynch, trumpet; Al Moore, Taswell Baird, Gordon Thomas, trombone; John Brown, Scoops Carey, alto saxophone; James Moody, Bill Frazier, tenor saxophone; Pee Wee Moore, baritone saxophone; Milt Jackson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c vibes; John Lewis, piano; Ray Brown, bass; Joe Harris, drums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wayne Shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/10\/monday-recommendation-unavoidably-delayed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Emanon<\/em><\/a> did not include that classic Gillespie b-flat blues but Shorter, like virtually all serious modern jazz artists, has frequently acknowledged Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inspirational example.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit late in the day, but not too late to say happy birthday to Dizzy Gillespie fans and millions of listeners who may not be aware that much of their favorite music would not exist if John Birks Gillespie hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t helped bring it out of the swing era. His spirit and example, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}