Interview with Leonard Feather
Description:
Interview with Leonard Feather on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is heard faintly in the recording. Feather discusses Gillespie's early small group recordings with Charlie Parker, hearing Roy Eldridge's influence on Gillespie in the Teddy Hill Band, the Cab Calloway band and the tune "Calling All Bars," particular aspects of Gillespie's vocabulary, the effect of World War II and the AFM recording ban on bebop, tours of the southern United States in the 1940s, "Shaw Nuff" and "Thiā¦
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Date:
July 30, 1992
Duration:
32 minutes 23 seconds
Creator:
Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994
Partner:
UNT Music Library