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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dizzy Gillespie"”.
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Life is a One-Way Ticket: Herman Leonard's Eightieth Birthday Celebration
… where musicians including Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Stevie Wonder once performed. Within the documentary, I show the celebration as an analogy for the life of Herman Leonard. In short but moving passages, Herman Leonard reflects upon the nature of his longevity, the world today, …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more fluid" conception of identity in the subgenre he helped establish – bebop. In the reciprocal of my reading of Invisible Man, I argue that Kay combines "American" bebop rhythms beneath a uniquely …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more fluid" conception of identity in the subgenre he helped establish – bebop. In the reciprocal of my reading of Invisible Man, I argue that Kay combines "American" bebop rhythms beneath a uniquely …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… through 1949 he had composed big band music for Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy DeFranco, and Artie Shaw. From 1950 through 1953, he then took time away from composing to develop his theoretical foundation, ultimately creating the Lydian Chromatic Concept as his personal system. In the …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
… Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, Gerry Mulligan, Valery Mysovsky, Charlie Parker, Nonna Sukhanova. In Chapter 4 I discuss how Anna Akhmatova became the culminating shaping force on the young Avvakumites. Akhmatova was a living bridge to the broken-off …