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Interview with Bob Brookmeyer

Description: Tim Owens interviews Bob Brookmeyer for a Jazz Profiles program on Gerry Mulligan. Brookmeyer discusses Mulligan and his music, and he discusses his own life and career, including his health, wellbeing, and sobriety, bebop's impact on him, the Birth of the Cool, the Claude Thornhill band, the impact of Gil Evans, Johnny Carisi, becoming a bandleader at age 49, the Village Vanguard, Jim and Andy's club, and his future plans.
Date: March 15, 1996
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens) & Brookmeyer, Bob, 1929-2011
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Gerry Mulligan

Description: Interview with Gerry Mulligan by Terry Gross for NPR's Fresh Air program. This interview occurred during performances of Mulligan's work by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta on December 14, 16, and 19, 1989, and includes excerpts of Entente for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra, Jeru from Birth of the Cool, Line for Lyons, and Song for Strayhorn. Mulligan discusses going on the road, working with Gene Krupa, how he came to specialize on the baritone saxophone, his admiration of… more
Date: December 18, 1989
Duration: 23 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens) & Mulligan, Gerry
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Three short interview clips with Gerry Mulligan

Description: "Module clips" from a longer interview with Gerry Mulligan. In these clips, Mulligan discusses the tuba in an ensemble, himself as a saxophonist, playing the baritone saxophone and in the lower register in general. There is also incomplete audio at the end of the recording.
Date: April 15, 1996
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens) & Mulligan, Gerry
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Ahmad Jamal

Description: Interview with Ahmad Jamal. Jamal discusses the Pittsburgh music scene (both jazz and classical) at length, comparing it to that of Memphis, noting his first teachers, Mary Cardwell Dawson and James Miller, as well as the "training ground" that was the Musicians Club Local 471. He also discusses Erroll Garner, and seeing Cootie Williams and Bud Powell at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, his approach to space in music and his ensemble sense, being influenced by Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie, Du… more
Date: August 19, 1996
Duration: 32 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Fitzgerald, Greg & Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-2023
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Gunther Schuller

Description: Interview with Gunther Schuller on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is unknown, and not heard on the recording. Schuller discusses Gillespie as a composer and arranger, particularly with the Billy Eckstine band, how improvisations later informed ensemble work, hearing the Earl Hines band in Cincinnati, the blues emphasis of the Eckstine band, the tune "Things to Come," the album Gillespiana, JJ Johnson's admiration of Paul Hindemith, Afro-Caribbean music and "A Night in Tunisia," "… more
Date: August 22, 1992
Duration: 25 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Schuller, Gunther
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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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 "Thi… more
Date: July 30, 1992
Duration: 32 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Stanley Crouch, Chico O'Farrill, and Jon Hendricks

Description: Separate interviews with Stanley Crouch, Chico O'Farrill (rather than Hamilton, discovered post-digitization), and Jon Hendricks on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie for NPR's "Dizzy's Diamond." The interviewer is not audible, but O'Farrill addresses "Eugene" (Holley). Crouch discusses Gillespie and the blues, his harmonic sophistication, the tune "Wheatleigh Hall," the tune "Hello Little Girl" on Duke Ellington's Jazz Party, Ellington's importance and connection to the blues, Gillespie and latin… more
Date: 1991-1992
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Crouch, Stanley; O'Farrill, Chico, 1921-2001 & Hendricks, Jon, 1921-2017
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Lionel Hampton

Description: Interview with Lionel Hampton, primarily on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not identified, but an unidentified engineer addresses "Eugene" -- possibly Eugene Holley -- near the end of the recording. Hampton discusses the "Hot Mallets" session, Benny Carter, "One Sweet Letter from You," Dizzy Gillespie's style with Cab Calloway, the influence of Roy Eldridge on Gillespie, working with Benny Carter, Chu Berry, and Coleman Hawkins, bebop as a new idiom, jam sessions at Clyde Hart… more
Date: July 24, 1992
Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Hampton, Lionel
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Separate interviews with Arturo Sandoval, Felix Grant, and unidentified representative of radio station KFAI

Description: Separate interviews with Arturo Sandoval and Felix Grant, both on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The recording itself is undated, but one interview notes the year 1992, which fits with other intensive activity in this collection during that year for content related to Gillespie. The interviewer is not heard in Sandoval's interview, but is in the Felix Grant interview. Sandoval discusses his early exposure to jazz, Cuban music traditions and African influences on them, the meaning of Manteca, t… more
Date: 1992
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens); Sandoval, Arturo & Grant, Felix E., 1918-1993
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Interviews with Art Taylor and Mario Bauzá

Description: Separate interviews with Art Taylor and Mario Bauzá. Eugene Holley is the interviewer on both, but is barely audible on the first interview (Art Taylor). Taylor discusses the four occasions he played with Dizzy Gillespie (replacing Art Blakey at Birdland, with the Bud Powell Trio, the Cool World film, and the Duke University tribute to Gillespie), what he learned from Gillespie, his book Notes and Tones and the interview he did with Gillespie, Gillespie and drummers, African influences, downtow… more
Date: 1992
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Taylor, Art & Bauzá, Mario, 1911-1993
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Al McKibbon

Description: Interview with Al McKibbon on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. McKibbon discusses Gillespie's overall contributions in the context of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge before him, the use of the bass in "A Night in Tunisia," melodic bassists including Jimmy Blanton and Oscar Pettiford, other bassists McKibbon admired (Wellman Braud, Walter Page), how Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Pettiford changed the use of the bass, hearing Gillespie on Detroit radio, "Two-Bass Hit" and "One-Bass Hit," whether he pla… more
Date: June 28, 1992
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: McKibbon, Al
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Melba Liston

Description: Eugene Holley interviews Melba Liston for the 13-part "Dizzy's Diamond" project on NPR. Holley is not heard on the recording; only Liston's answers are heard. Liston discusses how she got to work with Dizzy Gillespie after working with Gerald Wilson, playing a borrowed baritone horn until her trombone arrived, working with Dizzy Gillespie in the 1949 band and the 1946 band, being the only woman in the band, arranging for the 1956 band, working with Quincy Jones and Ernie Royal, Anitra's (or Ann… more
Date: September 2, 1992
Duration: 24 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene & Liston, Melba
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Quincy Jones

Description: Quincy Jones speaks with an unidentified interviewer, who is not heard on the recording. Dizzy Gillespie is the general topic of the interview; Jones discusses how he started working with Dizzy Gillespie, having to decline a project with Johnny Mathis and George Avakian for the 1956 U.S. State Department-sponsored tour, cultural developments that accompany a new kind of music, the Eckstine band and the birth of modern jazz, his dislike of snakes, an anecdote of an encounter with a monkey while … more
Date: May 13, 1992
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Jones, Quincy, 1933-2024
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Jon Faddis, part 1

Description: Interview with Jon Faddis on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not heard on the recording, but an engineer is heard addressing Eugene, presumably Eugene Holley. Throughout the interview, Faddis not only speaks, but demonstrates complex and elaborate examples of bebop trumpet playing. Faddis discusses Louis Armstrong, Charlie Shavers helping Gillespie to learn Roy Eldridge's style, Shavers as an unsung hero, the 1951 recording "Pops Confessin'," the Kenny Washington Verve boxed … more
Date: 199X
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Faddis, Jon
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Jon Faddis, part 2

Description: The conclusion of an interview with Jon Faddis, presumably by Eugene Holley. Faddis demonstrates the development of Dizzy Gillespie's ending to A Night in Tunisia, and discusses the rhythmic influence of Roy Eldridge.
Date: 199X
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Faddis, Jon
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with John Lewis and Terence Blanchard

Description: Separate interviews with John Lewis and Terence Blanchard on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not named or on the recording, but Blanchard addresses "Eugene," likely Eugene Holley. This recording contains occasional extended silences, including one from 0:05 to 0:40. Lewis discusses Dizzy Gillespie's impact in making virtuosity on trumpet a rule rather than an exception, becoming aware of Gillespie while serving in the U.S. Army via V-Disc recordings, meeting Kenny Clarke in … more
Date: 1992
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Lewis, John, 1920-2001 & Blanchard, Terence
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with James Moody

Description: Interview with James Moody on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not audible, but Moody addresses Eugene [Holley] later in the recording, along with a possible recording engineer named Danny. Moody discusses Gillespie's contributions to music and the incorporation of the bebop language into modern music, Gillespie raising the bar on technical skills, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk, Gillespie preferring to understand the ii/m7b5 chord in its iv/m6 inversion, mutual inspiration bet… more
Date: April 27, 1992
Duration: 45 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene & Moody, James, 1925-2010
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Cándido

Description: Interview with Cándido, primarily on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not named; nor are the questions heard on the recording. Cándido discusses coming to the United States and to New York City for the first time, meeting Dizzy Gillespie in 1952, signing at the Downbeat club amid a misunderstanding about who was hiring him, Wynton Kelly serving as a translator, going on the road with Dizzy Gillespie, the tune Manteca, coming to the U.S. with a dance team, Chano Pozo, the Apoll… more
Date: October 7, 1992
Duration: 41 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Cándido, 1921-2020
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Description: Interview with Wynton Marsalis, primarily on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. Marsalis discusses Gillespie's unique musical attributes, his evolution in the context of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, his humor and versatility, Afro-Cuban jazz, Duke Ellington's "Afro-Bossa," great solos by Dizzy Gillespie ("I Can't Get Started with You"; "A Night in Tunisia" on An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet), Duke Ellington's UMMG (Upper Manhattan Medical Group), how he characterizes … more
Date: May 4, 1992
Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-
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Interview with Charlie Persip

Description: Charlie Persip gives an interview in connection with the "Dizzy's Diamonds" series. He addresses the interviewer by the first name Gene, which may be Gene Lees, but the interviewer's identity is not confirmed. The interviewer's voice is also not present on the recording. Persip discusses performing on Dizzy Gillespie's 1956 State Department-sponsored tour and its success despite detraction by members of Congress and other officials, a private concert with a tabla player, the wealth disparity in… more
Date: August 27, 1992
Duration: 32 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Persip, Charlie
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and Claudio Roditi

Description: Separate interviews with James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and Claudio Roditi on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The exact correspondence of individual interviews and dates is not certain. The interviewer's questions are barely audible on the James Moody interview. Moody discusses Gillespie's health condition at that time, Gillespie's band being the first one he played with professionally in 1946, Gillespie's advice that "everything you want to play is in the piano," the impossibility of playing eve… more
Date: June 17, 1992
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Moody, James, 1925-2010; D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948- & Roditi, Claudio
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Arif Mardin

Description: Interview with Arif Mardin on the subject of Dizzy Gillespie. Mardin discusses hearing his first Dizzy Gillespie record (Shaw 'Nuff) around age 15, Gillespie's 1956 State Department-sponsored tour which came to Ankara, taking his arrangement to Quincy Jones and getting feedback, getting the Quincy Jones scholarship to Berklee, Gillespie recording his "This Lovely Feeling," another session with "luminaries of the L.A. pop scene," Gillespie as a modernist and his personality, goodwill, and rhythm… more
Date: August 13, 1992
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Mardin, Arif
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Milt Jackson and Ira Gitler

Description: Separate interviews with Milt Jackson and Ira Gitler. The interview with Gitler was discovered after digitization. MIlt Jackson discusses Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to 20th century music, the new approach to improvisation by Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Gillespie's contributions in harmony and rhythm, taking a melody and reconstructing the approach with different chord changes (with Hot House and Parker's solo on Lady Be Good as an example), Gillespie's fusing Afro-Cuban music and jazz, J… more
Date: YYYY-MM-DD
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Holley, Eugene; Jackson, Milt & Gitler, Ira
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Ray Brown

Description: Interview with Ray Brown in August of 1991 or 1992 by NPR's Los Angeles bureau, on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is not heard on the recording. Brown discusses Gillespie's contributions to music (disputing whether framing the question as contributions to bebop is adequate), an anecdote about Dizzy showing him which notes to play, the 1945 small group with Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford and Jimmy Blanton's contributions to jazz bass playing,… more
Date: 1991-1992
Duration: 28 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Brown, Ray, 1926-2002
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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