International Media Interoperability Framework. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. View manifest View in Mirador. Description This custom—made "Silver Flair" trumpet belonged to renowned trumpeter, bandleader, and composer John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, a founder of the modern jazz style known as bebop.
Renowned for his musical virtuosity and for his impish good humor and wit, Gillespie played this trumpet from the late s to the early s. Its uniquely shaped upturned bell was Gillespie's internationally known trademark. Nominate this object for photography. I also played an Al Hirt horn which was available on the market as a Super 20 Symphony.
My ML Silver Flair had an extremely quick response, excellent projection and furthermore was the easiest horn to slot I ever played including my 60's Martin Com and Getzen Eterna. In ways it was better than my Bach Strad.
I really liked the valve action and placement. Great for my smaller hand. The most dramatic of my trumpets has to be the Super20Symphony II. It'll burn the paint off the back wall of a seat auditorium. Valve compression was second t o none! Anyway, that's my take on Diz and his King horn. His Silver Flairs were Gold and Silver and heavily engraved.
Beautiful horns! Doc Greg Piette Sun, I am also a beginning trumpet player as well as accomplished drummer. My main horn has been autographed twice in 2 separate areas, and dated for each time by the great Chris Botti. I also just picked up a horn today which I had customized to have the same bent-up bell that Dizzy Gillespie's horn s had.
It has been fitted with a Holton bell section in place of the original Berkeley bell section, as the brass tech for Hilton Music center in Colonie Center Mall, Albany, NY, already had the bell from the Holton horn bent and ready to go.
I hope to one day find a vintage Martin Committee 3 large bore horn, like Chris Botti, Dizzy Gillespie, and so many of the true greats played--that Committee large bore sound is just the best ever! I was kind of surprised to see that your Dizzy Gillespie horn is made by King! These weren't necessarily considered 'professional' horns, since King catered to the student horn market, but nevertheless, it is cool to see that Dizzy chose a King to do an bent-up bell!
I saw him playing this very horn with Arturo Sandoval, probably not too long before he passed away. The tone is unmistakable and martin Committee 3 large bore all the way! The Legends - Part Seven. Dizzy Gillespie. John Birks Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina in Nicknamed " Dizzy " because of his zany on-stage antics, Gillespie, a brass virtuoso, set new standards for trumpet players with his innovative, "jolting rhythmic shifts and ceaseless harmonic explorations" on the instrument during the 's period, which ushered in a definitive change in American Jazz music from swing to bebop.
The last of nine children, Gillespie was born into a family whose father, James, was a bricklayer, pianist and bandleader. Dizzy's father kept all the instruments from his band in the family home and so the future trumpet great was around trumpets, saxophones, guitars and his father's large upright piano most of his young life. James use to make all of his older children practice instruments but none of them cared for music.
Dizzy's father died when he was ten and never heard his youngest son play trumpet, although he did get the chance to hear him banging around on the piano, because Dizzy started trying to play this instrument at a very early age. Two years later young Gillespie began to teach himself trumpet and trombone.
His musical ability enabled him to attend Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina in because the school needed a trumpet player for its band.
During his years there, he practiced the trumpet and piano intensively, still largely without formal guidance. He stayed there for two years, studying harmony and theory until his family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in In Philadelphia, Gillespie began playing trumpet with local bands, learning all of his idol Eldridge's solos from records and radio broadcasts: it was in Philadelphia that he picked up his nickname of "Dizzy".
After a couple of years Gillespie moved on to Cab Calloway's band in Their revolutionary band ushered in the bebop era and was one of the greatest small bands of the 20th century.
An arranger and composer, Gillespie wrote some of the greatest jazz tunes of his era: songs such as "Groovin High", "A Night in Tunisia" and "Manteca" are considered jazz classics today.
The musical papers - and even the national press - began publishing photographs of a pouting, posturing, preening Gillespie, sporting a lavish goatee beard, and invariably garbed in beret, dark glasses and an extravagant zoot suit.
He was the grimacing Grimaldi of jazz, and his exhibitionism and sartorial eccentricities earned him rancorous criticism from the "mouldy fyges". Gillespie basked in the attention. But he was quick to refute accusations that he had sold out - by producing a series of highly charged recordings, and setting up a brash, exciting big band, founded on his own idiosyncratic ideas. With his trumpet and its upturned, golden bell, goatee, black horn rim glasses and beret, Gillespie became a symbol of both jazz and a rebellious, independent spirit during the 's and 50's.
His interest in Cuban and African music helped to introduce those music's to a mainstream American audience. When he died he was famous and beloved everywhere and had influenced entire generations of trumpet players all over the world who loved and emulated his playing and his always positive, upbeat, optimistic attitude.
Gillespie's legacy is probably best summed up by Gillespie himself in a statement that would sound a bit arrogant if it weren't so probable: "The music of Charlie Parker and me laid a foundation for all the music that is being played now… Our music is going to be the classical music of the future".
Here is my top 10 of Dizzy's compositions:. Twitter Facebook Delicious Digg Reddit. Newer Post Older Post Home. Popular Posts. Cool Jazz.
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