I was visiting family in NYC in '84, was a fat teenager then. Family took me to a jazz club, and Dizzy was playing that night. Had a ball, just entranced by his playing. Sat right up front and I'll never forget Dizzy blowing, looking down at this chubby teen bobbing to his music, and winked at me. Made an already awesome night unforgettable!
Mi profesor de instrumento me decía igual , pero mi profe de teoría me decía toca como te sientas cómodo pero que te entienda la gente al tocar tu instrumento
You know he died in1993 right and you print this in the comments to years ago basically means you have no clue that he’s dead now that he’s been dead for over 20 years
Just came here after reading in my anatomy textbook about cheeks that balloon out due to over stretching of the buccinator muscle and Sir Dizzie was used as an example... my oh my, came for medical research, stayed for the talent 🖤
I conducted a performance of this with Dizzy and his small combo and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham. Fall ‘87. It was a straighter version. He told the story of how the last time he played in Birmingham he had to come in through the kitchen. Kinda killed the vibe but great show.
Growing up in the 80s I was focused on my shred guitar players, and wanted to be on MTV. I've made Jazz my business over the last few years and REALLY gotten into Diz. Man I missed the bus BIG TIME. Had I understood back in my developmental years of music the intricacies of Jazz, and just what a good human, teacher and musician Diz was, I would have gone a TOTALLY different direction and been the player years ago I should be today.
Nothing wrong in my opinion. You didn't miss anything. I was into Yngwie and Frank Gambale in my teens. Loved 80s metal up until now. At the same time I listen to jazz even though I couldn't name a lot and I have to consult my playlist. Fusion too, I'd fire up Pat Metheny from time to time. Then pick up my classical and play some Villa Lobos. Most of what I'm into are older than me, nothing wrong with gravitating to what speaks to us, whatever stage in our lives.
@@friedtoes8691 Actually, Glassblowers disease is acquired, it IS because of his puffing that his cheeks now look like that, due to overstretching of the muscle that normally keeps the cheeks retracted(buccinator muscle)...
@@Pedun42 Nothing is "improper". If you find something that works for you to where you can play pretty like dizzy it works. I puff my lips and it works perfectly fine.
@@troutdaddy3600 I would say you can play at a high level with any sort of embouchure but you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use what's taught as proper form.
Talked with Diz after his performance at Georgetown's Blues Alley in DC '86 or '87. Shaking hands with Diz; one of my hero musicians since I was able to walk as a toddler in 1962, floored me because he looked so sad; then later I found out he knew he was dying. Diz is alive when we put on a 78, LP, or CD; just like Bird and many others. RIP Diz.
The first jazz performance that I attended at the Swamp Fox Room of the Francis Marion Hotel in June of 1961 starred this man. I was fourteen at the time. I'm 72 now. He was a Master, and always will be.
Dizzy Gillespie - Pure soul within & without... He wrote: “When I encountered the Bahai faith, it all went along with what I always believed. I believed in the oneness of mankind. I believed we all come from the same source, that no race of people is inherently superior to any other.”
It's the most perfectly imperfect form of music that there is! You can do and take it almost anywhere that you want. Say just about anything or nothing at all and just let the music speak for itself. Its brilliant and yet insane at the same time. Cheers!
I saw him several times at The Southerland Lounge on the south side of Chicago. Some of the sets were an hour long. He played to the audience and always gave 100%. He also was very friendly and signed many autographs for his fans during intermissions. What a great performer he was. RIP Diz. Your music lives on!!!!
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤
These trumpets only exist because of dizzy. I don’t remember exactly what happened but some kind of accident happened that made his trumpet look like that, and he liked how it looked like that so he had the rest of his trumpets made that way. Trumpets like these are used in marching band now sometimes
He appeared once in the Muppet Show and in the end he said to kermit that he admires frogs because they can puff up their cheeks, then he shows his own cheeks. It was very funny. :D (you can search Dizzy Gillespie Muppet Show)
I’m in love with jazz. Biggest tip I can give to anybody is listen to the pros. Listen to anything and everything, no song is the same, even if they have the same title. Trust me.
Whoever directed this recording was so smart to point the camera on the (excellent) bass player while the guitarist is soloing on the chord progression :-)
Dizzy Gillespie believed that if you did not fill your cheeks and neck with air, you were restricting air flow and power when you played. He thought that would be harmful the body. If you have ever played a brass or woodwind instrument your cheeks and neck had air in them. Maybe not as much as Dizzy, but it is unavoidable. When you force huge amounts of air from the diaphragm into that little mouthpiece there is a delay as the pressure is maintained. The air pressure has to be held somewhere, or else the sound will die out. The more air the more impressive the sound.
I met Dizzy once at a show in Pittsburgh. Great show and very nice man he came over and talked with us and others it was a smaller place with tables. Walt Harpers place. My question is who is the guitar player he is amazing as good or better than George Benson.
I love hearing all these "Experts" who want to give Dizzie Gillespie advise on how to play ....unbelievable....
Try ADVICE. Or Go Back to MIDDLE SCHOOL And Take a SPELLING CLASS.
@@ericmeyers5576 Calm down, Eric. Did someone have a rough day?
eric meyers since when do classes for spelling exist in middle school you dumb fuck
Ha! Apparently, Eric Myers was still taking spelling classes in middle school.
Playing like this screwed dizzy up. I'm pretty sure he had tissue damage cause of this
I was visiting family in NYC in '84, was a fat teenager then. Family took me to a jazz club, and Dizzy was playing that night. Had a ball, just entranced by his playing. Sat right up front and I'll never forget Dizzy blowing, looking down at this chubby teen bobbing to his music, and winked at me. Made an already awesome night unforgettable!
Wow! Now that's quite a memory!
Magic
Awesome ❤
Random info about being fat teenager just thrown in there lol
ty, awesome read while listening to this
When your band teacher tells you to not puff your cheaks.
Dizzie: “I’ll do it again”
L4G Media, ikr this dude sounds skilled but looks like his cheeks tell an entirely different story
Its a condition called glassblowers disease
Ahahahah
Mi profesor de instrumento me decía igual , pero mi profe de teoría me decía toca como te sientas cómodo pero que te entienda la gente al tocar tu instrumento
@@KP-by4eu I say that but the other way around
It amazes me how he seems to play so effortless, any tempo, any impossible lick, any high pitch and being creative at the same time.
7:13
Yep....
As long as it was swung
That effortless is the thing. Full of training and training and training and rehearsel..
@@sommelierramon Saw him here in Italy in 1978...Heart-attack performance....Thanks Dizzy...You won't be forgotten
Saw him in concert in 1978 and years later (1990) I met him in an italian airport and we talked a bit... Thanks Dizzy
You know he died in1993 right and you print this in the comments to years ago basically means you have no clue that he’s dead now that he’s been dead for over 20 years
Did you even read? He didn’t say he met him yesterday. A few years later could have been anywhere from 1978-1993.
@@Burt472 why are you yelling at mclovin' if he is helping you
Lucky!
@@brockjerred6847 I'm sorry...I was bugged...Now I corrected my post...Thanks for your help...Best
When he said 🐡 i felt that
Augh
Когда я прочитал твой ник, я почувствовал это
my friend when i showed him dizzy's cheeks: 👁👄👁
Ору
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, vocal
Edward Chery - guitar
Michael Howell - bass
Tommy Campbell - drums
Just came here after reading in my anatomy textbook about cheeks that balloon out due to over stretching of the buccinator muscle and Sir Dizzie was used as an example... my oh my, came for medical research, stayed for the talent 🖤
I conducted a performance of this with Dizzy and his small combo and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham. Fall ‘87. It was a straighter version. He told the story of how the last time he played in Birmingham he had to come in through the kitchen. Kinda killed the vibe but great show.
Growing up in the 80s I was focused on my shred guitar players, and wanted to be on MTV. I've made Jazz my business over the last few years and REALLY gotten into Diz. Man I missed the bus BIG TIME. Had I understood back in my developmental years of music the intricacies of Jazz, and just what a good human, teacher and musician Diz was, I would have gone a TOTALLY different direction and been the player years ago I should be today.
Tbh I don't think you missed the bus, you simply focused on what you felt was right at the moment, and now fate has come back to show you more
Nothing wrong in my opinion. You didn't miss anything. I was into Yngwie and Frank Gambale in my teens. Loved 80s metal up until now. At the same time I listen to jazz even though I couldn't name a lot and I have to consult my playlist. Fusion too, I'd fire up Pat Metheny from time to time. Then pick up my classical and play some Villa Lobos. Most of what I'm into are older than me, nothing wrong with gravitating to what speaks to us, whatever stage in our lives.
This dude was so unreal, u can see his muscle flexing on the back on his neck when he blows, there was and is no one ever like him
That’s not muscles that’s a disease you get from constant blowing giving stretching out your cheeks and throat like a frog
thats not his mucles, its an airpocket on his neck bassically
That's air filling up his neck not muscles... it's a disease some musicians develop after years of excessive playing
@@fpsdovah2572 did you also see the short about this?
@@Angel_423 well i did
When people can have the range and speed he had then pass judgement Thank you
Thank you‼️ couldnt have said it better myself
Band teacher: don’t puff your cheeks
Dizzy: *i am the danger*
Dizzy did advise others to not imitate his cheeks
Those who can do...
I don’t know how he does it I used to play trumpet and if I puffed my cheeks it would hurt after a little
@@tranquilhawk5110 he doesnt puff them he just has glassblowers disease
@@friedtoes8691
Actually, Glassblowers disease is acquired, it IS because of his puffing that his cheeks now look like that, due to overstretching of the muscle that normally keeps the cheeks retracted(buccinator muscle)...
man aside from his cheeks becoming hot air baloons, his neck even swells up. how in the hell did he play like that!
Herniated his cheeks and neck with improper form.
@@Pedun42 Nothing is "improper". If you find something that works for you to where you can play pretty like dizzy it works. I puff my lips and it works perfectly fine.
@@troutdaddy3600 I would say you can play at a high level with any sort of embouchure but you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't use what's taught as proper form.
@Conrad Nickelson except the way he played literally negatively affected his health. Severely herniated cheeks and neck.
@Conrad Nickelson and I never mentioned high school level, but high level, so I think you might have misinterpreted what I said a bit.
Dizzy's family lives in his cheeks
Ha!!!
Good one....
Wh-wh… whatchu mean by that?
Talked with Diz after his performance at Georgetown's Blues Alley in DC '86 or '87. Shaking hands with Diz; one of my hero musicians since I was able to walk as a toddler in 1962, floored me because he looked so sad; then later I found out he knew he was dying. Diz is alive when we put on a 78, LP, or CD; just like Bird and many others. RIP Diz.
The first jazz performance that I attended at the Swamp Fox Room of the Francis Marion Hotel in June of 1961 starred this man. I was fourteen at the time. I'm 72 now. He was a Master, and always will be.
Dizzy Gillespie - Pure soul within & without... He wrote: “When I encountered the Bahai faith, it all went along with what I always believed. I believed in the oneness of mankind. I believed we all come from the same source, that no race of people is inherently superior to any other.”
He had two things causing that. 1: a pre-existing air sac in his neck area called a laryngocele, and 2: puffing his cheeks when playing the trumpet.
Huge brain
Second was obvious tho lol
I knew there had to be a technical explanation! VINDICATED!!!
The cheeks was a medical condition
without a doubt my favorite version... Its just so cool, so suave, so hip, and i feel like an alley cat when i snap my fingers to this
I only want to thank Dizzie and those other wonderful musicians who informed and educated me in my formative years. Such excitement!
Awesome music....I Love JAZZ.
It's the most perfectly imperfect form of music that there is! You can do and take it almost anywhere that you want. Say just about anything or nothing at all and just let the music speak for itself. Its brilliant and yet insane at the same time. Cheers!
@@daviddavidson8050very well put
I saw him several times at The Southerland Lounge on the south side of Chicago. Some of the sets were an hour long. He played to the audience and always gave 100%. He also was very friendly and signed many autographs for his fans during intermissions. What a great performer he was. RIP Diz. Your music lives on!!!!
That awkward moment when it’s the first time you’ve clicked on a video for some cheeks while not on incognito...
lol
💀
😂
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Dizzy is the supreme horn of all time!
Good morning bongolicious77! Thank you for posting this bit of wonderful music history Diz is GOATS. Shalom Y'all! from Kentucky.
I heard this YEARS AGO on the jazz station here... Wow! So glad you posted this!
First time i see a trumpet like that ! Dizzy plays wonderfully, but I'm even more impressed by his creativity!
As a tunisian,this song is approved.
Is nobody gonna talk about the sick bass solo?
If ur playing with dizzy you need to be perfect at what ur doing. Great bass player but expected ykwim
Amazing
“NoOoOoOo you’re not supposed to puff out your cheeks when you play the trumpet!!” “Shut up, I’m trying to puff out my neck like the master.”
I am born in Tunisie ❤😊 go there in djerba beautiful beach and sea ❤❤
This is really nice, Mr. Gillespie. Great tune.
Nice Sonny Rollins quote from the bass player. Love it.
Love this vibe!
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness.
It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is my favorite rendition…. Did you hear that groove….. ❤
Legendary!
Wow. Great musicians all the way around him too, that drummer is sharp, makes it easy like it's supposed to be.
I met him in Erie, Pennsylvania around 1978.
Masterpiece!
literally
I'm Brazilian I just watched the video I loved this trumpeter
Ich liebe diese Komposition auch in dieser Ausführung.
Genius in music form
All of them masters
We saw Mr. DizzyG in Albany free concert circa 1990
Never can forget how amazed I was
this is awesome
Yes it most certainly is
One of my favorites!
U and Albert Collins are my favorite mewzitions
Thank you for posting this.
Love the scene in movie for love or country when this song is featured ❤🎉
Never seen a trumpet like this before :O but he is just an amazing musician no doubt ❤
These trumpets only exist because of dizzy. I don’t remember exactly what happened but some kind of accident happened that made his trumpet look like that, and he liked how it looked like that so he had the rest of his trumpets made that way. Trumpets like these are used in marching band now sometimes
@@Oopyirdy if that's true it's cool 😎😎
Escolhas de instrumentos certos, Boixo fender jazz, Guitarra Gibson, batería dw, e trompeta 🎺 Perfecto.
Everyone talking about his cheecks, but no one noticed those absurdly high cymbals
We noticed them, but those cheeks man
That was the thing back in the day. Times have changed. My arm feels much better when times did change. LOL!
@@bigjoocylol
excellent guitars
bass player and guitarist were amazing as well
Nothing Better...
This is just simply beautiful, so many talented people out there!
There are no others that can play like Dizzy. Not today!
That bass solo at the end is phenomenal
Fully agreed....
this is my favorite version.
Great trumpet play
RIP 🎺
Oh Crhist I love adore this man so much......
1:55 explosive ! This why all the greats play Night in Tunisia separately & together.
dizzy gillespie is a frog
Dizzy 'Cheeks of a Toad' Gillespie
He can probably circular breathe very well
Syrgee # he has so much air in his cheeks he doesn’t need to breathe at all
Green Lemon In another universe he became a deep sea diver instead. He located the titanic, in fact
He appeared once in the Muppet Show and in the end he said to kermit that he admires frogs because they can puff up their cheeks, then he shows his own cheeks. It was very funny. :D (you can search Dizzy Gillespie Muppet Show)
This dude is a DOPE jazz legend and was one ☝️ of the best!
He sure is.....
超カッコいい、、、！
そしてほっぺすごい！！！
Dude, I wish I could play jazz.
heh it only took me a solid 5 years until I was good at it...worth it though
Everyone can play jazz! Just some people are better than others. If you practice, your jazz will get better.
U can go for it man
- Overdooo - Well said.
I’m in love with jazz. Biggest tip I can give to anybody is listen to the pros. Listen to anything and everything, no song is the same, even if they have the same title. Trust me.
Dizzy Gillespie for president.
The Greatest bee-bop trumpeter ever.
The Masters know nothing. That's what makes them great. ❤
Yes he had those cheeks, and you’ll never sound like him, ever.
Tks. much.
This live version appeals to me so much more than the recorded versions
All time music ❤👏👍👍👍👍💋❤️
Have heard many versions by Diz but this is my absolute favorite. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It would never get better than this. We know. Its okay , still now. And : fortunate : its also good now , with top top musicians. Dizzy is 1 .
An amazing trumpet player
Now that's Jazz!
Saw him that Years with that Band for my first Time at the Volkshaus Zürich.
Whoever directed this recording was so smart to point the camera on the (excellent) bass player while the guitarist is soloing on the chord progression :-)
El Maestro de maestros...mis respetos...
Dizzy Gillespie believed that if you did not fill your cheeks and neck with air, you were restricting air flow and power when you played. He thought that would be harmful the body. If you have ever played a brass or woodwind instrument your cheeks and neck had air in them. Maybe not as much as Dizzy, but it is unavoidable. When you force huge amounts of air from the diaphragm into that little mouthpiece there is a delay as the pressure is maintained. The air pressure has to be held somewhere, or else the sound will die out. The more air the more impressive the sound.
Holllyyyyyy shitttt, amazing, what a breathe.
Impressivo Fantasicooo Dizzy
Genial Gillespie
Genio , mucho mas...
Beautiful sounds
I gotta get out more
I can still see my high school if I stand on my roof
Let alone spend a night in Tunisa geez 😂
awesome
My goodness. Idk how he got that sound with those puffed cheeks, but I've always enjoyed his music 🎺🎶
Came here after reading Acid For The Children. What a cheeks, what a band!
this is killer
The puffiness of his cheeks only makes this more impressive - exactly how much more air do his lungs have to pump to make the same sound as normal?
This man stores air for winter
Great bass
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody going on about "proper form" ever hear of a young man called Jimi Hendrix?
I met Dizzy once at a show in Pittsburgh. Great show and very nice man he came over and talked with us and others it was a smaller place with tables. Walt Harpers place. My question is who is the guitar player he is amazing as good or better than George Benson.