13 Jazz Acts to Help You Keep Cool at SXSW

"...like: cool Miles Davis, post-swing Clifford Brown, Latin bebop Dizzy Gillespie, funky proto-fusion Freddie Hubbard. Last LP still 2009's..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Arturo Sandoval Sounds His Horn

Cuban trumpet great on Eastwood, Gillespie, and God

"...never heard of that.” Then he played me a Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker record. Wow, that was it,..."

Jan. 24, 2019 Music Post by Jeremy Steinberger

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Dizzy Gillespie ran for president in 1964. He promised to..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Playback: Waterloo Music Festival vs. Eastside Kings Festival

Austin music’s fall festival opens with a double-barrel bang

"...She cut a live album with Arnett Cobb and Dizzy Gillespie and, more recently, a studio LP with fellow..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?

Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.

"...tenor saxist who blew with idiom greats Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, and Tony Bennett. His Count Basie Orchestra bandmate,..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Grupo Fantasma Melts Austin City Limits

Latin hornographers’ second PBS taping pulls out all the stops

"...Cobras” swooping and snatching like a speed version of Dizzy Gillespie’s bop standard “Salt Peanuts.” Their melting jams were..."

June 29, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Gina Chavez Tour Diary Numero Uno

U.S. State Department ambassadors stake Latin America

"...held by the great jazz ambassadors Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie in 1968, and connect with people in nations..."

April 1, 2016 Music Post by Gina Chavez

15 Minutes with Elvis Costello

A few pages from an almost 700-page book – as told by the author

"...In my house, it was jazz, be-bop, and post-bop. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Of course I didn’t understand..."

Oct. 15, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Counterculture Time Capsule

Forty years later, Les Blank's Leon Russell rock doc sees the light of day

"...in celluloid of Lightnin' Hopkins, Flaco Jiménez, Lydia Mendoza, Dizzy Gillespie, Mance Lipscomb, New Orleans Mardi Gras tribes, and..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Lars Nilsen

From the Vaults: Blank Checks Out

Les Blank tells us the favorite all of his films

"...and food. A sampling of his music subjects include Dizzy Gillespie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifton Chenier, the Ry Cooder Group,..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Precious Lloyd

Butler School concert honors African American composer

"...familiar figures such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bob Dorough Still Has the Magic Number

On 'Schoolhouse Rock!,' bebop, and being forever beatnik

"...to John Zorn, Allen Ginsberg to Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie to Blossom Dearie. He's hip like that, this..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Viper Moon

Jazz guitarist Slim Richey recovers

"...so I just walked back there, and there was Dizzy Gillespie. I said, 'Tell me why your horn points..."

April 20, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...and soul covers everything from old (James Brown and Dizzy Gillespie) to new (Sublime and Ozomatli) punctuated by too-clever..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...is how he approaches playing softly. Anybody can get Dizzy Gillespie, playing up here. Anybody can get Freddie Hubbard...."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Not-so-crazy pianism

"...the foundation for modern jazz, years before Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were credited for creating bebop, the revolutionary sounds..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...JF: Oh, my God! First, the boppers, you know? Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, this kind. And then I..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters @ 3AM

Cyberspace is nowhere and everywhere, a place where the articles on www.michaelventura.org hover and hang, nailed to a virtual wall like paintings in a museum

"...liberated Auschwitz, Truman bombed Hiroshima, and Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie made their first bebop jazz recordings – I..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

The Beat Goes On

Harry Ransom Center hosts the Kerouac scroll

"...Topolski's Chronicle. A listening station offers jazz music (including Dizzy Gillespie's "Kerouac"), interviews with beat figures like Herbert Huncke..."

March 14, 2008 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, and Dizzy Gillespie were among the thousands toking and smoking as..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 1

Smelling the jasmine with Vince Martin and Fred Neil

"...another freelance job reviewing jazz shows. We'd go see Dizzy Gillespie or a Charlie Parker tribute band in smoky,..."

May 18, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Elias Haslanger Reviewed

"...honed by playing with Chucho Valdés, Ellis Marsalis, and Dizzy Gillespie. Haslanger's jazz is both modern, drawing from funk..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Review by David Lynch

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.

"...brass band tradition with jazz, funk, and intrepid collaborations (Dizzy Gillespie, David Bowie, Modest Mouse). In 2004, Ropeadope released..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

The Complete Argo/Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/ Jazztet Sessions

Gift guide

"...Betty." Other laudable pieces are supplied by Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Bryant. Jazztet arrangements were full of..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...quarter-century, they've played with everyone from Modest Mouse to Dizzy Gillespie. The band jams with Widespread Panic on their..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Tal Farlow

Jazz sides

"...influenced by Lester Young and later Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Farlow played gigs in New York as early..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Twenty Flight Rock

Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

"...jazz, nor by its preeminent purveyors, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and their followers. Later, in a letter to..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...In the bebop era, musicians including Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie swung not only with enormous power, but also..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Kenny Barron & Regina Carter

"...a prominent jazz veteran, having played with Yusef Lateef, Dizzy Gillespie, Ron Carter, and Freddie Hubbard. Carter is one..."

June 15, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6

"...Orleans' piano prince James Booker, Thelonious Monk walking alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington with Mahalia Jackson, the Sun Ra..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

« 1    ‹ BACK    1   2   3     NEXT ›    3 »