Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker

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A1 Hallelujah
A2 Slam Slam Blues
A3 Diggin' Diz
A4 Confirmation
A5 Dynamo
A6 Round Midnight
A7 When I Grow Too Old To Dream
B1 Congo Blues
B2 Get Happy
B3 Moose The Mooche
B4 Yardbird Suite
B5 Ornithology
B6 A Night In Tunisia
B7 Crazeology

Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker
Bass – Ray Brown, Slam Stewart, Vic McMillan
Drums – J.C. Heard, Roy Porter, Spec Powell*, Stan Levey
Piano – Al Haig, Dodo Marmarosa, Teddy Wilson
Sleeve Notes – Paul Shapler
Tenor Saxophone – Flip Phillips, Lucky Thompson
Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davies
Vibraphone – Milt jackson, Red Norvo

Dizzy Gillespie
Real Name:
John Birks Gillespie
Profile:
American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise". (born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina; died January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey)

Together, with Charlie Parker, he was the predominant figure in the development of bebop (bop), which laid the foundation for modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.

He was also one of the key founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz, adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, and utilizing complex poly-rhythms early on.

Career Highlights:
Awarded New Star Award from Esquire Magazine (1944)
Performs at first integrated concert in public school, Cheraw, SC (1959)
First jazz musician appointed by US department of State to undertake cultural mission (1972)
Awarded Handel Medallion from the City of New York (1972)
Received Paul Robeson Award from Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies (1972)
Performs at White House for President Carter and the Shah of Iran (1977)
Performs "Salt Peanuts" with President Carter at White House Jazz Concert (1978)
Inducted into Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1982)
Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (1989)
Received National Medal of Arts from President Bush (1989)
Received Duke Ellington Award from the society og Composers, Authors, and Publishers (1989)
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989)
Received Kennedy Center Honors Award (1990)
Received fourteen honorary degrees, including Ph.D. Rutgers University (1972), Ph.D. Chicago Conservatory of Music (1978)
Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording

Charlie Parker
Real Name:
Charles Christopher Parker Jr.
Profile:
Born: 29 Aug 1920 in Kansas City, USA.
Died: 12 March 1955 in NYC, USA (aged 34).

Jazz saxophonist and composer.
Best known as simply 'Bird' (a shortening of 'Yardbird', Parker acquired the nickname early in his career with many contradictory stories regarding the name's origin). Widely considered to be one of the most influential of jazz saxophonists, jazz musicians, and indeed musicians in general.

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