Ellington & 100 years of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie (Podcast #17-013)

Ellington Reflections · Oct 7, 2017 · 53m

https://ellingtonreflections.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/monk-diz-podcast.mp3“I always like the bop, and I am proud to say that the fabulous, flamboyant John Birks Gillespie worked in our band once, for four weeks. Diz played with us at the Capitol Theatre in 1944, when we had the gorgeous Lena Horne on the bill. Of course, I’d known him for quite a while before that, because I was an avid visitor on Fifty-second Street.”

– Duke Ellington, Music Is My Mistress

Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival. (Photo by Jim Marshall)

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