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Fri 8 Jan 1993 - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)
Page 8 - Gillespie's death a blow to music
Gillespie's death a blow to music
. ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey: Diz
zy Gillespie, who blew new life into
jazz through his trademark bulging
cheeks and bent trumpet, died yes
terday. He was 75.
Gillespie, whose style combined
blistering speed, melodic warmth,
compositional genius and a comic
spirit, died in his sleep at Englewood
Hospital, where he was being treated
for pancreatic cancer.
Along with Charlie Parker, The
lonious Monk, John Coltrane and
Miles Davis, Gillespie'was a tower
ing figure of modern jazz.
He turned jazz in new directions
in'at least.two ways — as a founding
father 'of the style known as be-bop
and when he collaborated with Cu
ban musicians to give African
American music a Latin beat.
Perhaps more than anyone since
Louis Armstrong, he helped popu
larise jazz through a charismatic
combination of humour and show
manship.
He wrote or co-wrote many songs
that became jazz standards, includ
ing A Night in Tunisia, Groovin'
High, Manteca, Salt Peanuts, Con
Alma and Woody 'n You.
John Birks Gillespie was born on
October 21,1917, in Cheraw, South
Carolina. His father was a bricklayer
and amateur musician, and Gilles
pie inherited his love for music.
His first instrument was the pia
no. When he was in the third grade,
he fell in love with a friend's new
trumpet and began playing it when
ever he could.
In 1935, Gillespie's family moved
to Philadelphia. Within two years,
Dizzy — the nickname referred to
his zaniries's — had, made the jump
to New York.- > •
In 1939 he joined the famous Cab
Calloway Orchestra. The following
year, he married a young dancer
named Lorraine Willis. Their mar
riage, which lasted his lifetime, gave
him stability that set him apart from
many musicians.
Gillespie came of age during the
Big Band era, and played the trum
pet in a style that descended from
Armstrong and Roy Eldridge.
Out of this grew be-bop.
Gillespie was credited with coin
ing the term when he tried to de
scribe the sound of the new beat
He left Calloway's band in 1941,
and played with a succession of
other band leaders over the years.
Gillespie was known for both his
bullfrog cheeks and his upturned
trumpet. While his cheeks defied
conventional wisiom about the
proper technique for blowing a horn,
Dizzy performs with his trademark bulging cheeks and upturned horn during a 1989 concert. Help
Dizzy performs with his trademark bulging cheeks and upturned horn during a 1989 concert.
Gillespie said they worked for him.
As for the horn, he said the origin
was an accident in 1953, when an
other player tripped over his trum
pet stand and bent the bell upward at
a 45-degree angle. Gillespie liked the
sound it gave him and used bent
homs the rest of his career.
In Sydney, Australian trumpeter
James Morrison said yesterday one
of the greatest things Gillespie
showed young musicians was that
there was room for silliness in jazz.
"He could get up there and be a
serious jazz musician and be silly.
He didn't have to be this introverted
unreachable 'I wonder what he's
like' [person]," he said. "He had so
much time for people like me, who
did not really matter that much to
what he was doing.
— AP, AAP
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APA citation
Gillespie's death a blow to music (1993, January 8). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 8. Retrieved April 2, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126967813
MLA citation
"Gillespie's death a blow to music" The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) 8 January 1993: 8. Web. 2 Apr 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126967813>.
Harvard/Australian citation
1993 'Gillespie's death a blow to music', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 8 January, p. 8. , viewed 02 Apr 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126967813
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126967813 |title=Gillespie's death a blow to music |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=67, |issue=21,087 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=8 January 1993 |accessdate=2 April 2025 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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