Dizzy Gillespie Interview PART 1 of 3

1982

[@bvscfanatic]

I am NOT a fan of this interviewer at all, but I appreciate you for posting this interview. I ADORE this man. Dizzy Gillespie was the first non-Hispanic to appreciate and to champion Afro-Cuban jazz. His friendship with Chano Pozo and with Mario Bauzá helped to revolutionize the sound of jazz itself.

[@yannickmantele5788]

this interviewer is a fool I agree, and dizzy man, he is awesome

[@John27346]

"every time is modern"

[@mandohat]

Finally realized that Bill Cosby is imitating Dizzy Gillespie.

[@nastynate838]

interesting 🤔

[@arlenecerf8833]

Yah I think he admired Dizzie , almost like a son feels about his Father. They share similar mannerisms, vocal inflections, tone.

[@jaleelshaw]

I'm sure Dizzy picked it up too.. I love how he keeps his composure... He was an amazing guy.

[@holygroove2]

I wish that I could have met this man. What an inspiration!

[@ianbeddowes5362]

I just LOVE Dizzie. I cried like a baby when I heard of his death. A truly great musician and a wonderful human being.

[@kellythompson3865]

I saw Diz and Sara Vaughn, Max Roach, and Buddy R. At Monterey Jazz! Dizzie was dressed so casual in African dress! He played Congas between trumpet solos.Diz introduced this well dressed man in a suit, from Jullards, plays rumpet! The young man was excellent, playin rapid fire notes, clean and slick. Dizzy watched him, as Diz played congas. Diz smiled at the youngster. Then, it was Dizzies turn. Weren't no triplets nor musical acrobatics. Diz took his time, held his horn then casually, pressed the horn to his lips and took his time with every note. So beautiful and soulful. I was blessed, as were all the audience, black and white. Yes sir. Mr. Gillespie, music is universal! Thank ya !!

[@hiddenblade999]

I love this guy. I miss him. A true genius of the art. Humble as you can get.

[@viggosimonsen]

Diz is just the sweetest and most charming character in Jazz, ever. Beautiful human being. I think the interviewer is Dick Cavett. He is certainly not an ass. He is actually quite sympathetic; Nicer than many other TV hosts, I can think of.

[@brookelyn7714]

The interviewer sounds very condescending. He had the nerve to say to Dizzy that his cheek muscles puffed-out due to weakness, and Dizzy's reponse, "I don't know what it is but I don't sound too weak do I?" Classic response! Not to mention that he ask Dizzy a question and then interrupts him in the process of answering it, to provide his own incorrect answer. Very unprofessional annyoing bloke!

[@bgoodwinster]

it's pretty insane how so many interviews with jazz greats are so condescending. the miles davis interviews, especially the ones from the usa like 60 minutes, are enough to make me sick.

[@feel.s1304]

@Zach Higgins He told him to hit his trumpet, I don't think he cares.

[@ModernVintageFilm]

Some white boys usually, I am not innocent, just always respect.

[@diabl2master]

The interviewer is lame as fuck and I dislike him but the neck thing is indeed caused by certain muscles in the pharynx becoming weak. It doesn't imply the trumpeter will become a weak player in any sense... clearly!

[@michaelfeeney9147]

I feel you although I think he was asking about muscles weakening in reference to how big this man head got when he puffed his cheeks lmao. I am also pretty astonished this man could puff out his whole neck!

[@talstory]

still stands out in my memory as the best concert I ever saw..lifted us right up..

[@davecolombia]

when he says, "you didn't carry your trumpet in a brown paper bag" he is referring to Bix Beiderbecke, a very influential cornet player from the 20's...he lost his mind and would walk around town with his cornet in a brown paper bag...tragic story

[@1masterfader]

His vocabulary was great.

[@daha5210]

I love Dizzy he had a heck of a good sense of humor and Personality.

[@IrisheaglesOne]

I so wish I could have met this man! He was (still is, in spirit) just amazing!

[@rigelloar7474]

Because of his dizzy personality, people often forget that he was a profoundly advanced musical genius, an innovative virtuoso, composer, and improviser of the very first rank !

[@cymbya]

what can a "poor boy do" but REVOLUTIONIZE MUSIC!!!

[@hannonmcnasty]

wow...."don't play it?" that's like telling picasso, "no, stop that. don't paint anything!"

[@usmc1875]

the questions the interviewer males, my god. asking about money and shit like that.... Diz did it because he loved the music... gaining stuff was not even in his wildest dreams... his life was to phrase like he did, and as he does because he will remain alive in his music, and though humanity doesn't listen to this quality of fine and elegant music anymore, there will always be a kid like me who will be blown away by the frog man, wailing at incredible tempos and connecting those movements with that bebop idiom:) i love you Diz, thank you for your energy....

[@StephanieJeannot]

I love him so much. Awww!

[@bgorrell]

Wonderful!

[@jairoenriquemendietacastil9565]

Greatest Musician ever.

[@Renendan]

Damn what a trumpet player. Saying you can never master it; feeling that the instrument has its own personality and playing accordingly. I wish I was that musical to feel that way about any instrument.

[@jakoborzelli9082]

What a human being, gone but not forgotten!!..

[@teenmetalhead666]

i would love to have met dizzy, he seems so awsome.

[@nil4309]

"if you lived to be 1000 years old, you'd never mess with this boy..." legend

[@otmq]

He said “...you’d never master this, boy!”

[@nil4309]

@@otmq ah thanks!

[@aaronamccoy]

he use to dance with my mom at monterey jazz festival down the aisles, it was a trip, he's the best

[@albertbrown359]

Awesome knowledge from the master. My Lawd

[@Niamhmusicmusic]

What a guy. I wish i coud've met him

[@1masterfader]

Such a happy soul Dizz is

[@yannickmantele5788]

what, I never knew that Dizzy is such a great guy, super funny humble sensitive intelligent tough. he got it ! I love him now!! Im listening all of his recordings different from now on, Im looking much forward to play some of his solos, to become a little little little bit like him or at least understand a way of his thinking.

[@blackvitruvianman]

Dizzy was great!! Such a warm person!!

[@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743]

musical genius...

[@michaeltaylor-pg4tc]

what a humble man

[@doccw75]

I'm a musician and a music journalist who always knows his subject and the people I interview can tell that I'm one of them and it makes a huge difference. I never got to interview Diz! I would have been prepared.

[@bandicoot5412]

The great artist as art himself.

[@blackmozart8547]

The interviewer is very interesting.

[@MyYearTheDreamer]

This is my uncle :) haha

[@eben7248]

you're a lucky man

[@BruceWayne-pm6co]

that’s awesome

[@sellmeyoursoul6601]

dizzy always high as fuck love this guy

[@cam6537]

I wish that I could've lived in the time of dizzy and been his friend he seems like a great man

[@bsshh]

Teach Master!!!!!!!

[@adamrafferty]

Diz was my teachers teacher - a musical genius on the level of Mozart. This is no exaggeration. I challenge anyone to scat sing what Diz did at the beginning of the interview :-)

[@etniko]

For some reason the interviewer sounds to me obnoxious... almost disrespectful.

[@ki-hongjang4101]

I've just watched this video and that's what I'm thinking right now.

[@tblack9711]

You're 100% right. He's a condescending bigoted prick. "Your daddy, your momma." He's a grown man, anytime a white person says that crap to a black person it's condescending and disrespectful.

[@ercm2393]

You are right...he is an asshole

[@charlesmiller7283]

Dizzy Gillespie 1945 that's the Year everything started to break BIG TIME for both DIZZY and CHARLIE PARKER.

[@pacman80500]

DAMN!

[@aaronamccoy]

dizzy for president

[@lagathy]

gr8 guy...

[@assignmentearth2899]

So, DizzyFanatic,...there was an HBO special on Quincy Jones, 20 something years ago, that had Miles, Dizzy,...tons of other people,....but the Dizzy portions of the interview were priceless, including a story he told about Charlie Parker. In the story, he and Bird were playing some club down south and somebody broke a bottle over Dizzy's head. Charlie came out and found Dizzy bleeding and according to him, Bird said, "you cur,....you have struck my friend." Even in the seriousness of the situation Dizzy found humor in Parker calling this guy a "cur". I'd love to see that again. Any chance you have access to that? At any rate, enjoyed what you have.

[@gstar-365]

What's a cur ?

[@assignmentearth2899]

@@gstar-365 If dogs understood English, they would be offended at being called a cur. When you use the word cur, you're talking about a dog that's either a mutt, very unattractive, aggressive, or all three. The word can also be used as an insult for a person, especially a despicable man.

[@DanielKodiak]

4:05 is the best clip to understand what a musicians career is like

[@HERodriguezJr]

2:40 is what you're here for. You're welcome.

[@nastynate838]

🌹

[@specialpixiedust]

Dizzy giving us a little serial killer techniques

[@1ambad]

He has a funny way of saying things but you understand every point

[@neuryluciano]

Que gran musico, que gran ser humano.

[@bomaite1]

I agree.

[@forevershampoo]

na you hit em with this part check it out hahahah hell yea

[@samadjhi]

Dizzy was always a teacher

[@chasefreak]

Akinseye-actually Dizzy DID have a condition which caused his cheeks to bullfrog out (if you will) like they did and it sadly did catch up with him as he got older. Many of us trumpeters can get a rupture in the neck (or lower), which will cause the same effect (like Bill Chase had) that is caused by "bottle-ing" up the air and delaying your attacks when you're coming along. What Diz had was different, true the guy doing the interview seemed out of his element asking a lot of useless questions.

[@RanBlakePiano]

He was on the faculty of the .lenox school of Jazz

[@LANDIBAJ]

From all accounts he was modest, humble man. To me a genius.

[@ThemThems]

i like his hat

[@KingfisherLtd]

Dizzy was the coolest

[@mikhailr13]

@decus69 I think i read somewhere that he got the name because his "Dizzy" personality. Not entirely sure. I would of loved to of met him. Seems such a chilled nice dude.

[@basspig]

The rise of the Bebop drummers, during this organic change in Jazz brought rhythm into the contrapunctal scheme of the music.

[@farshimelt]

Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Stan Levy.

[@blackezi3]

I never get the respect I deserve that's why I hate getting interviewed --- Nas

[@MuzoSTEIN]

I SUSPECT THE ANNUAL BUBBLE GUM BLOWING COMPETITION ORGANISERS WOULD'VE BANNED GILLESPIE FORTHRIGHT FROM EVER ENTERING WHAT UNDOUBTEDLY WOULD BE AN ASSUMED 'BREEZE' EVENT FOR THE LEGEND!

[@rlm5657]

The cut this interview to pieces! smh!

[@BASSHEAD89030]

6:05 interviewer was about to say how did you died :P

[@decus69]

I guess he got the nick name 'Dizzy' as his middle name was Birk - Berk.

[@loosebelt]

This guy is not a great interviewer (and he is NOT Dick Cavett*) but he is forgotten and Dizzy lives on as one of history's great musicians - both as player and person. Great to hear him talk. *Interviewer sounds similar to Dick Cavett but if you listen to any of the many Dick Cavett interviews on youtube you can tell it is not him.

[@Homunculas]

Sounds like the interviewer is CHARLIE ROSE........jus sayin

[@decus69]

@mikhailr13 Yes he was the Main man

[@matthewmartin6442]

Pause at 5:02 and 5:04

[@salamillaha8839]

You are so much for a

[@Lyraorganum]

hahah you hit with that. hes one funny bastad!

[@fusionhar]

DIZZY GAGA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@effsixteenblock50]

The interviewer is *not* Dick Cavett. I can hear some similarities in the voice but it's absolutely not him.

[@acohen1980]

What a great interview..thanx to Dick Cavett

[@GGman2019]

Dizzy Gillespie was the 1st guy to bend it like that?

[@farshimelt]

Yes.

[@SK8terGuy19]

I think everyone is saying the interviewer is a jerk because the video is edited in such a way as to almost seem as if the interviewer is interrupting or switching subjects while Dizzy is speaking. That's just it. It's an edited interview.

[@saxophoneninja]

god the interviewer "Don't play it". You don't interview dizzy and tell him not to play the trumpet...

[@hacim42]

What modern musician is gonna say something's a misnomer? They prolly don't even know that word.

[@sumeursault]

Yeah, I agree with previous comments. The interviewer is being eeeeever so slightly exploitative here. Not sure what the word for that is, but it's noticeable.

[@SeerTrulth]

It's Dick Cavett and he lost his mind that night.

[@farshimelt]

Not Cavett.

[@CheapChampagne1]

Why was the interviewer bad? I didn't listen too much to him, so I really can't say..

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

What’s wrong with the interviewer ? Lotsa hate on here , he sounds fine to me .

[@MooseRocka]

The interviewer attempting some bizarre affected accent which is not native to his speech is so unbelievably offensive. I met Mr. Gillespie when I was a teenager after a concert he performed in Massachusetts. There were 5 or 10 of us young folk there. He was incredibly warm and friendly to us, he spoke to us for about 30 minutes. Truly nice man.

[@brcegipsn8813]

The interviewer had the nerves to call Dizzy “ a boy “ ? “You were a poor boy growing up “ so disrespectful

[@janedubourg4837]

You must be such fun to be with.

[@rickjackson6278]

The interviewer smugly described the Dizzy as a youth as a poor "boy".

[@akinseye]

this interviewer doesn't seem respectful, he is in the presence of greatness, saying he has weak throat muscles as a world reknown trumpet player is like saying Michael Jordan can't jump.

[@AminalaMuzik]

dizzy is the best this interviewer is the worst

[@grantkoeller8911]

who is the interviewer? some say dick cavett some say no? let's find out who it was....

[@Homunculas]

Sounds like CHARLIE ROSE

[@ericharding92]

interviewer is cavett

[@farshimelt]

Wrong.

[@neuryluciano]

Cuanto racismo en esta entrevista.

[@etniko]

Si. Eso mismo me pareció!

[@ericharding92]

condescending irritating interviwer. whats with imitating his accent and calling him boy?

[@jaleelshaw]

he seems disrespectful to a certain degree... saying mama... stuff like that... there are some racial undertones.. "aint fair the call you that, huh?"

[@NaturalElicia]

That interviewer sounds racist his undertones and use of words this sounds like Dick Cavett