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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:50 |
#45
trinkle, tinkle
for budd Johnson
i mean, sez budd johnson,
they wasn't calling it
bebop then. even monk
couldn't explain it,
but dizzy could,
& he could develop. but now,
i do remember this about monk:
monk's feelings got hurt
because dizzy & charlie
was getting all of the credit
for this music,
this style
i used to go
over to monk's house with him,
drink some wine with him. come on,
i want you to hear
what i'm doing, he said, i'm gonna let them
take that style, & go a-
head, & i'm gonna get
a new style.
i used to go
over to monk's
& sit down & drink. his mother
would fix some food for us,
& he would just play for me,
all this funny-type music
that he was playing. & he had gone
altogether different
from what he had been doing. i said,
hey man....
that's outtasight! what're you doing,
whaddayou call that?
i don't know man, it's just &
you know? he couldn't
explain it to me. & i never
thought of monk
as a great piano player, but he
would fumble on that piano
& get these things out
& made all the dissonant
chords,
& major seconds,
& minor seconds. & i said
hey, man,
that's outtasight. well,
i m going on now
with my new music,
he said. & he did.
he did go
right on along
with his new
music.
harmonie park, detroit
july 11, 1988/
detroit
august 6, 2003
reference: dizzy gillespie
with al fraser,
to be, or not...to bop
(doubleday, 1979), p. 219
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