Dizzy Gillespie Tears It Up With The Tonight Show Band | Carson Tonight Show

Dizzy Gillespie performs "Manteca" and "I Can't Get Started"
Original Airdate: December 27th, 1977
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[@hunter999888]

To think this was the kind of music people were getting exposed on national television. We’ve really lost a lot of culture and appreciation for the arts to consumerism.

[@Warp75]

Yep our culture today is mainly soulless

[@cjrrun]

Don't blame the consumer, blame corporations. Now at least you have choices on what type of music to listen to

[@JazTrance]

Compare this to the nightly musical acts at the end of each of the late night shows today...😢

[@kencutter1094]

Masterclass How reading music can make an orchestra so tight and the master just riffs

[@chrisarseneault5617]

We need to thank Johnny Carson for showcasing acts like this. Nowadays anyone with a number one album even though it sucks can go on a nighttime talk show and make money and then they fail miserably

[@JazznRealHipHop]

Marvelous. What a beautiful soul, a beautiful teacher, and a beautiful horn. A moment in time in jazz history. It’s a shame Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Monk, etc ALL the greats could not have created more art together, have more time….but I’m so very grateful for the art they left us ❤️🎺

[@chrisbuttermore776]

Woof

[@chrisbuttermore776]

Woof WOW woofer

[@c17nav]

When I die, if I hear the greats you cited jamming together I will know I made it to Heaven.

[@ignaciogalvan1732]

Bird lives!!

[@dylangatenby9928]

I couldn’t agree more!!

[@daleproctor3723]

We likely will never see the likes of Dizzy and his greatness again. Thank goodness for these recordings.

[@deirdremacdougall8415]

Wow I just adore him. !! what an Incredible person and musician. A great treat for Johnny and his band.💗 Dizzy 🌹

[@cgmoog]

He worked that band and they enjoyed it. Watch the musicians cheering on the Gillespie solos and their genuine smiles and cheers at the end of the songs.

[@luciamiller1555]

I had the great good fortune of seeing dizzy Gillespie live at Hampshire College, and I was able to stand directly in front of him while he played watching those amazing cheeks bulging full of air as he played lol! We were so close I could’ve reached out and touched him. Amazing! One person asked him what his secret to long life was and he said he ate a box of donuts every day, smoked a cigar and drank rum lol! I don’t know if that’s true, but it was funny and amazing at the same time. Such a warm, caring and talented man, and amazing that this crowd got to hear such a musical genius on primetime television. I wish that were true today.❤

[@dee_dee_place]

There are so many musical artists that I wished I had the opportunity to see in concert. Gillespie is definitely one of them. Thank goodness I have their albums & there are these videos.

[@billbryant1288]

So much respect and awe from the trumpet players in Doc's band! Mr. lead trumpet himself, John Audino, was so into Dizzy that he miffed his first note at 1:13! And that's something John NEVER did.

[@da11king]

It still sounded very good though. I didn't even notice until you said so

[@tfronauer]

I heard some clams in the saxes too. I’ve never heard this band make a mistake. Must’ve been an off night. That bass player was on top of things though!

[@billbryant1288]

Joel DiBartolo on bass! Nobody better.

[@lwskiner]

@@billbryant1288 That's for damn sure ! One of the best charts he played on was the opening for La Fiesta with Maynard's band on some of the live concerts circulating out there. He was on a whole different level !

[@billbryant1288]

@@lwskiner Wow! I didn't know he played with Maynard.

[@GolfAfter50]

I first saw Dizzy the same year - but he played The Muppet Show. I was 10 so I couldn't stay up this late -- yet! Amazing to be able to see this footage again. And as a trumpet player, thanks too!

[@JazTrance]

There's a player in the 2nd row, just left of center, who was marveling at Dizzie's set... you could just tell how much he appreciated it and was in awe of him

[@pointillist]

One of the trumpet players in the band with the best seat in the house...

[@247hdjazz]

yeah..........Conte Candoli!! A GIANT himself!!

[@RichardSalvucci]

Jimmy Zito was grinning broadly. All the trumpets were gassed

[@barryo5158]

I saw it too, especially when Dizzy played some of his signature bebop licks.

[@jamesoconnor9711]

Really miss this kind of sophisticated beautiful music 🎶 Johnny had class ,no doubt he was the best nighttime host ever miss them all so much . Thank god for KZbin.

[@terryharp3422]

Go...Dizzy!!! And there's never gonna be another like him...

[@ajn465]

I’m quite positive I saw this when it aired. I would’ve been 12. Dizzy always hits me in the feels…

[@ignaciogalvan1732]

I have great love for dizz. But what about bird? I think him as a hummingbird. Flowing. Flying. Just as it suggests. Flying free!!!

[@williemakeit2346]

@@ignaciogalvan1732this video features Diz. There are plenty Charlie Parker videos on here as well, we all love Bird. But can we let Dizzy have his shining moment in his own video?

[@robertgastreich9846]

First we had Louie Armstong, and now Dizzy Gillespie. Two of the greatest horn men in the business. Now this what music is all about. I love watching Dizzy with those cheeks going in and out. The best Jazz man of all time.

[@hulkjelly6876]

He hated being called Louie. It was always Louis.

[@simonduring-nicholson7228]

Agreed. Dizzy was the greatest

[@hviii7452]

Played at my HS shortly before his passing. I still listen to Dizzy daily.

[@ignaciogalvan1732]

Like James Brown said..."gotta gotta gotta!!!"

[@johnsjohnson448]

On the rare occasion when Mr. Carson would emerge from behind his desk to greet and hug a guest, one instintively knew how much reverence and respect he held for them. Thanks for sharing.

[@hornerinf]

He was one of a kind. He was a major inspiration in my own music career. I got to meet him once in a small club and he couldn't have been nicer. I had a book of his music and he had the whole group autograph it. RIP legend!

[@722DL]

You had a chance of a lifetime, hope you appreciated it

[@hornerinf]

@@722DL He was my favorite jazz musician of all time! I will never forget meeting him.

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

I just popped my eardrums and gave myself a migraine puffing out my cheeks like that

[@J.B24]

The 70s had to be an interesting time in music. You had the WWII generation still wanting to hear their Sinatra Jazz and then you had great foundational rock bands, foundational pop music. The artists who would reign at the top for the next 20 years were getting going during this time. Oh and country music was good too.

[@ajn465]

Hang around through the ballad… I can’t get started… Dizzy puts on an amazing display of harmonic virtuosity so casually, you may not notice that it happened. But wow. Just… Wow. The colors he could paint…

[@karenleemallonee684]

I am so glad to have grown up and now have a better taste and respect in music & musicians. Back when this was originally on, I would had tuned this out in a heartbeat & been impatient for the next guest to come out. I can say I found this absolutely wonderful, what a great interview & dynamite music...what was I thinking back then? Appreciation!!! 🎶🎶🎶😎

[@chasefreak]

Forever grateful Dizzy "allowed" my buddy and I to hang with him backstage after a concert in Palm Beach, Fl. He was smoking "Manteca" (pot) and having a ball. We asked him 10,000 questions and he was generous, polite, funny and articulate. I have a book entitled "A Pictorial History of Jazz," we brough along and he was impressed and interested and wanted to see all the old pics of him w Bird, etc. He was telling us where each pic was taken, etc. He could have just shooed us away but no, we hung with him a good 35-40 minutes.

[@tvanderson1960]

I was so fortunate to see him in DC in the 1980s. Remarkable! ❤

[@PapaEli-pz8ff]

I saw him perform with the New World Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center back in the early seventies. 🎵😊

[@paistebob3163]

That was so good it was music for the soul which is desperately needed today and always but especially today. Rip

[@YAMISOOLD2009]

Thank you for posting this wonderful moment. Dizzy has such a great tone. Trumpet master!

[@johnzdanewicz6982]

OMG, I can hardly type. Beautiful !!! RIP Dizzy, you were the BEST !!!

[@crissignori7482]

Bop is still king with Diz …. I have fond memories of listening to Diz with his band at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto in ‘75. I got his autograph along with his drummer Mikey Roker. Mikey was so cool and so kind with his time to chat with me between sets. Love love love his playing and Diz was always an entertainer and great crowd pleaser.

[@ignaciogalvan1732]

What a heavy honor for the backup Johnny Carson's band to be playing with Dizz😮 imagine if Bird 😊would have been there also

[@kennethtaylor964]

And, a lot of the cats in that band were Diz’s contemporaries or near contemporaries. The drummer was active in the club scene in NYC, a number of the brass and reed players were in serious big bands. It was sort of old home week for a few of them.

[@Twentythousandlps]

"I've been cognizant.." "Now that's a chief talking" - always love Johnny's quick wit!

[@lonewolf1053]

This is so good that it is bringing tears to my eyes..for real!....

[@vaughnnark1733]

Beyond Beautiful..forever our beloved International Treasure ❤..Vaughn 🎺

[@benjaminellis6237]

I wasn't a thought when this aired.

[@lwskiner]

Now this is good stuff ! Right around this time Dizzy played Manteca with Chuck Mangione on the Tarantella album and they had an epic battle on it.

[@247hdjazz]

Mangione was an asshole! Did I say he sucked?

[@debrasternhagen6598]

Fabulous musician!

[@robertcamilleri8613]

Never forget that Dizzy was very instrumental in getting Cuvan trumpeter Artural Sandoval and his family into the United States. What an incredible human being!

[@JeremiahCarter-ot1su]

Us as young musicians inside of the jazz category and Bebop of today's time I feel like we're responsible for making sure that this type of music never dies out and also still thinking the greats for leaving that sound to study and creating our own

[@kdm71291]

I may have seen this when it first aired...and it always tripped me out that he puffed up so much when he played....against the rules that I learned when I started playing.....but you can't deny the result....wonderful playing! And the Tonight Show band.....always the best....in HS jazz band, my friends and I would always stay up, if we could, to see if they would get a segment, so we could talk about it the next day!

[@jcsuykerbuyk]

Oh WOW!!!!!

[@amileoj9043]

Wonderful fun to watch Diz conducting the Tonight Show band through Manteca with his booty & leg kicks just like it was his own outfit back in the late 40s. And then comes that heart-stopping solo on I Can't Get Started, just to remind you that the man could also embellish a ballad with the best of them. It's so strange to think that this just happened to pop up on American TV screens on some random night, with millions of folks tuning in, and instead of some second-rate actor plugging some third-rate movie, that night they got to hear one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century blow a fresh melody worthy of Mozart.

[@ariesnmiami]

I saw him at the 2nd annual Clearwater Jazz Festival

[@Stubummer]

I love this!

[@LaCheleWallace]

This is a masterclass.

[@redfeather4452]

Incredible**

[@majorpayne100]

Real music 🎶

[@peterfreeman3317]

Wow, mind blown

[@tooter1able]

His sound founded BE-Bop---"JAZZ" .Although I don't like the term be-bop because it is an attempt to put a classifiable term into a box-like storage area in order to sweep it aside in favor of a more contemporary sound (modal, pentatonic improvisation--attributable to "mechanics" rather than the "drivers") . ...I saw him live many times--even shared the stage with him and he was jazz improvisation embodied and incarnate; he never displayed an artistry founded in technique but more in melodic lyricism that stirred the emotions of all who heard him. Thank you Diz.

[@biketech60]

Music and performers like him are my excuse for spending way too much on fine audio gear . It is my resurrection machine , attempting to bring them back to life . One upgrade away ......

[@Button215]

The man that's done more for the trumpet than any human being dead or alive.

[@kbkesq]

Great band!

[@jillkjv3816]

Wow! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@davewilliams9978]

Genius on stage

[@74455776]

Now that's some playin!!! Dizzy!!!

[@Clementesilva-kn6db]

Dizzy Gillespie fue el más grande exponente del jazz de todos los tiempos,era muy creativo y además muy congruente,un verdadero genio de la improvisación todas las notas encajaban y caian en su lugar, nada que ver con Miles Davis,ademas que tocaba muy bonito y el sonido de su trompeta de primer nivel.

[@MTSs2024]

please upload full episodes :(

[@brettmcclung7590]

💯 Agree! I do love the musical performances and interviews and all the great content @JOHNNY CARSON is uploading. But I would love to see more full shows too preferably with the original commercials if possible. But full shows in general, especially a lot of the recent segments they've been uploading. I want the full show from 11/12/76 with Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles, Olivia Newton John, David Janssen, Ray Johnson. The full show from 1/22/75 with Ann Margaret, the one from 9/2/74 with Carol Wayne filling in for Ed, Burt Mustin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Doris Day, full show where Ed is drunk from 4/8/77. That and many more to come Thanks!

[@ronaldleedham4719]

This is real talent! Not like today what they try and pass off...

[@CaesarDarias]

Another great musical performance. Thank you for posting. They sounded so good. Major kudos who the person mixing that live sound. The bass was high but it worked. They could have easily messed it up.

[@justincastillogayray]

I was 5 months old when this aired

[@mousekin]

7 months!!

[@SpiritMover314]

Two months in the womb for me….✋🏾✋🏾✋🏾😂

[@electrostatic1]

3 days for me!

[@augiegirl1]

This was 11 months before I was born.

[@FirstnameLastname-ew9qm]

Wow!

[@barryo5158]

Dizzy is the greatest. Diz for Prez!

[@roberthutchins4584]

Wow...

[@zenmasterx]

Dizzy-virtuoso. Makes it look easy-yeah, I could play that. Great drumming by Ed Shaughnessy with a complex beat.

[@matthewreynolds2384]

Dear comments section, get off your keyboard and dance already!!! This is Dizzy for crying out loud!!! 📢 🔊 🎵 🎶!!!!

[@3rdandlong]

Doc was probably in La La land being this close to a legend.

[@da11king]

Although Dizzy was past his prime, damn he didn't sound like it in this performance ✨️🥰🎼🎺🎵👌🏾🔥

[@robertcamilleri8613]

I meant "Cuban". Arturo and Dizzy performed together in Havana. Arturo lives in Miami and is still performing!

[@docmalthus]

African royalty descendent or not, Dizzy Gillespie was always a King.

[@datmeme8967]

Funny how Diz says he "didn't know we were gonna plat this" and yet the band knows what song it is without announcement as does he.

[@zonker33]

Where was Doc Severensen that night? Would be great to hear to both of them play together.

[@majorpayne100]

RIP 🪦 Dizzy Gillespie

[@larryyz_hideaway]

gotta repost Pete Fountain from 79

[@cmcull987]

He's got a little bit of Salsa going on, too.

[@yvocinfo3381]

Dizzy Gillespie honoring the Jazz music created by his fellow Native Black Americans.

[@SvenSveetheart]

Steve Stalzle is a cool guy.

[@jimgorman7903]

Is that a young Bruce Paulson in the middle of the Three Trombonists?

[@Pm50077]

So much better than the garbage on modern radio

[@7ebr830]

I get a strong "Chili Palmer" vibe from this track.

[@martinabalossantillan8253]

Te Amamos Maestro, besos al Universo, besos y abrazos desde Santiago del Estero, Argentina, salud.❤

[@rodrigoaquinoofficial]

MAMMA!

[@tucomorales5109]

Manteca - Pozo / Guillespie

[@jaquelineoreilly294]

wow, amazing music , how did i miss this in '77? think i was 13 ffs, listening to shitty pop music :(

[@luciamiller1555]

Ditto😂 I was 14 Prob couldn’t stay up that late to watch the show

[@brassyjazzful]

Anyone know the band's lineup in 1977?

[@akadventurer7563]

Dude has the wildest cheeks ever... good grief like a third lung... lol. Makes one wonder if he was a squirrel in a previous life.

[@jsilva7586]

three trombones

[@VoodooDewey69]

Other than Dizzy Gillespie sounds like a high school jazz band .

[@davidcarson1959]

Evil baby...

[@7ebr830]

If you start at the top of this video list, you have to go past 35 videos to get to the first non-white face. Kinda helps you understand where the wokesters are coming from. SMH