Benny Green in Chicago - the 1940's
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, page 346:
[In the summer of 1942 Benny Green and then Dizzy Gillespie joined a band in Chicago that included Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Budd Johnson, Charlie Parker and Shadow Wilson].
I used to listen to Diz a lot. He sat right behind me. Quite a few of the men in the band couldn't understand what he was doing, though they admired his control and execution. I didn't understand too much of it either, but I liked it.
Dizzy would take me to his house and show me on piano the alternate chords and other things he was doing. It was like going to school. I remember starting to ad lib around an … more >>
cite as
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 346. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435851723493 accessed: 25 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Jazz band music | performed by Dizzy Gillespie |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1940's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public, solitary |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:42:03 +0100
Approved on Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:32:27 +0100