Kenny Clarke - 1941
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, page 342:
[Thelonius] Monk had his own ideas about things, as far as harmonies were concerned. But Dizzy was more advanced than any of them. Diz, by the way, was the first one I heard play "How High the Moon" in any other tempo than what had been the usual slow tempo up to that point. That was about 1941.
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. 342. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435840243985 accessed: 30 October, 2024
Listeners
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1941 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:30:44 +0100
Approved on Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:06:41 +0100