Dizzy

Dizzy Gillespie is truly a remarkable man. With Charlie Parker, he pioneered the sound and the style of bebop, becoming an unstoppable innovator along the way. He became known as much for his compositions as for his masterful trumpet playing, with many of his tunes becoming standards over the years. Dizzys chipmunk cheeked playing style has made him one of the most recognizable musicians in the industry. But it is his unquenchable spirit and his willingness to share his talent and his vast musical knowledge that have made him one of the most beloved. In this volume, Lee Tanner pays homage to Dizzy Gillespie in his seventy-fifth year, examining his career from the 1940s to the present. The book combines a rich assemblage of photographs by a variety of renowned jazz photographers with memorable quotations both by and about Dizzy. Also included is anecdotal textual material that, along with the photos and quotations, lovingly weaves together the story of the man and his music. For aficionados and novices alike, this is a book to be enjoyed over and over againa rare collectors treasure not to be missed. About The Author Lee Tanner began photographing jazz musicians in New York City in the early 1950s. His distinctive photographs have appeared on the pages of Down Beat, Jazz Magazine (Paris) and Rolling Stone and have graced the jackets of many LPs and CDs. Tanner moved to the West Coast in 1980, and in 1990, under the title The Jazz Image, he launched a series of exhibitions featuring his own work and that of other noted jazz photographers, including Bill Claxton, Chuck Stewart, Herb Snitzer, Jerry Stoll, Milt Hinton and Giuseppe Pino at Kimballs East, the Bay Areas leading jazz club. The most recent show covered Dizzy Gillespies career from 1940 to the present, in celebration of his seventy-fifth year, and formed the basis of this book. Tanner earns his living as a materials scientist using an electron microscope to study and photograph the complex microstructures of metals and alloys. To his delight, the research produces aesthetic as well as technical satisfactions. Aesthetic rather than merely documentary values are what appeal most to Tanner in jazz photography, an art he sees as an ideal complement to that of the music itself. In a sense, were snap shooters, he states. Were photographing the moment. Thats what the essence of jazz isthe moment.

Hardcover. English. Pomegranate. 1991. ISBN: 9781566403962. 86 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 60316