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Saturday, 14 January 2006 11:51 |
#145
"a night in tunisia"
for dizzy gillespie
"it's hard to say in words
how our music came together,"
dizzy gillespie says. "harmonically,
monk played different
from everybody. he was the most
original. if you played with him
& didn't know the chords, it was
shame on you, because you'd never
hear them from him. he'd embellish
& you wouldn't be able to follow.
"one time i said to monk, 'look,
what did you get from me?
what did you learn from me
that you really worked on
& made into something else?'
he said, 'night in tunisia,'
'salt peanuts,' 'woody'n you.' i said,
'i'm not talking about no tunes.'
as an example, i told him
that he was the first one i heard
play a minor 6th
with the 6th interval
in the bass clef....
now i told monk
that i used that minor 6th
in many ways,
thousands of times. well,
he couldn't think of anything
that he first heard from me
& then developed."
harmonie park
detroit
july 11, 1988
reference: gary giddins,
riding on a blue note: jazz & american pop
(ny: oxford univ press, paper), pp.221-222
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