JAZZGate: The Music of Dizzy Gillespie
Thu 27 Jun 2019 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
The Black Gate
Description
Curated by Aengus Hackett Music, our jazz party featuring the finest of local and visiting musicians.
"Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated.
Somehow, Gillespie could make any 'wrong' note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was an enthusiastic teacher who wrote down his musical innovations and was eager to explain them to the next generation, thereby insuring that bebop would eventually become the foundation of jazz." - AllMusic.com
Matthew Berrill - Saxophone
Aengus Hackett - Guitar
Derek Whyte - Bass
Matthew Jacobson - Drums
Location
The Black Gate