Google Doodle gives a nod today to one of the best – John Birks Gillespie – on what would have been the jazz trumpeter’s 93rd season in the sun. The final curtain fell on Gillespie in 1993 when he was 75. Fans know him better as “Dizzy” Gillespie, whose cheeks puffed way out when he played. He had the style (beret, horn-rimmed glasses, bent horn), the personality and the chops to elevate bebop to the jazz lexicon. Visit Google.com and learn about an icon of American music.
The face on Dizzy Gillespie made him and bebop music memorable
The cheeks on Dizzy Gillespie is what many remember about him. However, bebop became popular because he could control the trumpet at such a breakneck tempo. A mix of melodic and harmonic improvisation, use of the vertical improve or cords instead of going horizontally through scales and runs throughout the horn range of eight notes are what Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker on the saxophone, and Thelonious Monk on the piano did in the 1940s to make bebop popular.
”Bebop” has numerous different origins although scat singing, where syllables that do not make sense are all strung together, is what Gillespie says the music originated from. The term had been coined by an audience, Gillespie said. This was when requesting a scat piece, Wikipedia reports. ”Scat” was not a popular term yet.
The cheeks that made Dizzy Gillespie renowned
There are many tales about Dizzy Gillespie’s cheeks, some of them perpetuated by Gillespie himself. Many assume the face had some form of muscular damage because he played the trumpet so often. He face increase abnormally when he is plying due to it.
Dizzy Gillespie and the cheeks have influenced countless artists
Modern jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis called Dizzy Gillespie”a great dancer, teacher, wit and spiritual presence,” writes the Los Angeles Times. It is this grace and personality, as well as the highest degree of skill and artistic flair with the trumpet, that has earned Dizzy Gillespie and face a spot alongside artists, artists and architects like Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Albéniz, Frida Kahlo, Wayne Thiebaud and Josef Franck as a Google Doodle.
Articles cited
LA Times
latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/10/google-honors-jazz-great-dizzy-gillespie-with-doodle.html
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop
Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra (featuring “Chano” Pozo), 1947 – “Manteca”
youtube.com/watch?v=s74NlRy-ibs
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