Danny Barker in Cotton Club - 1941
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, page 343:
When Dizzy [Gillespie] joined Cab Calloway's band he was always energetic and was always experimenting. […] This was around 1941.
Well, Dizzy and Milt Hinton, between those two-and-a-half hour shows at the Cotton Club (and they were very strenuous shows) would retire to the roof. Dizzy would blow his new ideas in progression, and he and Hinton would experiment on different ideas and melodic patterns, and they would suggest that I come up and join them. But after that two-and-a-half hour show, sometimes I'd go up and sometimes I wouldn't. Because what they were doing called … more >>
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. 343. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435849032040 accessed: 25 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| jazz trumpet and bass music | performed by Milt Hinton, Dizzy Gillespie |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1941 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in private, outdoors, in public, solitary |