How bad can it be?
Dizzy Gillespie on "The Muppet Show" Performing, "St. Louis Blues" with The Electric Mayhem, in a very groovy way.
This excerpt is from "The Muppet Show", season 4 episode 85. Aired: February 28, 1980.
Enjoy
Channel: Music Uploaded: May 30, 2006 at 7:02 am Author:doogit
Yea, from what I remember when I was little it never bothered him that people talked about his cheeks, he actually liked it which was weird (to me anyway). His personal life was awkward...I won't even go into that, lol. Thanks for replying.
actually there is a video on youtube that has Dizzy himself explaining how he got his trumpet bent it is called "Dizzy's Trumpet Story"
KlassyKamikaze(Sunday 16th of November 2008 07:57:41 PM)
He played upright. He wasn't Miles Davis who played downwards. After his horn accidentally got bent, Diz liked it better because he could hear himself better and thus had his trumpets made that way from then on. James Moody told me that story
KlassyKamikaze(Sunday 16th of November 2008 07:55:37 PM)
WRONG! If you see the pics of him in the 40s with Charlie Parker, he had a normal trumpet. The bent up bell started as an accident later. A dancer backstage tripped over it and bent it up. Diz liked it better because he could hear himself better and thus had his trumpets made that way from then on. James Moody told me that story
KlassyKamikaze(Sunday 16th of November 2008 07:52:01 PM)
WRONG! Miles Davis had the bad habit of leaning down. As you can see Diz plays very upright. The bent up bell started as an accident. A dancer backstage tripped over it and bent it up. Diz liked it better because he could hear himself better and thus had his trumpets made that way from then on. James Moody told me that story.
mikhailr13(Sunday 16th of November 2008 09:22:17 PM)
lol everybody has been giving me heaps of shit about this, thanks for the info, you wernt a smartass about it, i heard it from my old concert band teacher, who is a fool.
KlassyKamikaze(Sunday 16th of November 2008 07:49:53 PM)
Nope! A dancer tripped over it back stage and bent it. Diz liked it because he could better hear himself and thus had his trumpets made that way from then on.
Clitti, let me just say that i am a saxophonist, yet i influence a LOT from Dizzy... thats how great i thought he was... and so amazing that he and Duke led drug free lives, unlike everyone else... Dizzy is one of my heroes
