Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993): Groovin' High

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  • Label: Candid
  • Order number: 9815288
  • Release date: 16.12.2011
  1. 1 Groovin' High
  2. 2 Tin Tin Deo
  3. 3 Jessica's Day
  4. 4 Yesterdays
  5. 5 Cool Breeze
  6. 6 Dizzy's Blues
  7. 7 A Night in Tunisia
  8. 8 Stella by Starlight
  9. 9 Doodlin'
  10. 10 Tangorine
  11. 11 Whisper Not
  12. 12 Groovin' for Nat

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In 1956 Politician, Adam Clayton Powell convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the moment was right for a jazz tour of Africa, the Near East and Asia. The civil rights issue had become very important in America and Powell considered it an appropriate time to show the world that the country's racial problems were almost over. His choice of man to lead this venture was Dizzy Gillespie, the personnel was a mixture of racial, sexual and religious denominations and, in the main, the musicians heard on this release are those that made the now famous U. S. State Department tour. The leader, John Birks Gillespie, is acknowledged as one of the most outstanding players in jazz history. He was born into a poor family in Cheraw, a town that stands on the Pee Wee River in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, in 1917. His father was a part time band leader, although Gillespie's first introduction to a musical instrument was decreed by chance when he volunteered for the school band and was handed a trombone.

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