| Description |
xix, 552 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Chronology -- Preface -- Tan yo' hide -- School days -- Ice cream city -- Hard times -- Horns galore -- B-flat -- Laurinburg -- H.N.I.C. -- Becoming me -- Glory road -- Parlez-vous -- Lorraine -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- World's Fair -- The flatted fifth -- Klook-Mop -- Hot mallets (9-11-39) -- Diz the wiz -- Wholly matrimony -- Spitball -- Milton's playhouse -- LIttle John special -- Pickin' the cabbage -- Incubator -- No dancing -- The Onyx -- The Downbeat -- Hepsations '45 -- Three deuces -- California -- The Spotlite (the big band, 1946) -- Beboppers, the cult -- To heaven on a mule -- Cheeks -- Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban -- HIgh seas -- Groovin' high -- Godfather -- Headache -- Playin' it cool -- Dee Gee Records -- Machinations -- Bendin' the horn -- Bird and Diz -- School for jazz -- Changes -- World statesman -- Samba -- Higher than Ike -- Ancestry -- Striving -- Diz for president -- The cruel world -- Gettin' religion -- Dizziness -- Evolutions -- Honors -- Selected discography -- Filmography -- Honors and awards -- Index |
| Analysis |
Gillespie, Dizzy |
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Jazz musicians Biography United States |
| Bibliography |
Discography; pages 503-523 |
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Filmography: pages [525]-526 |
| Subject |
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993.
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Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Fraser, Al.
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| LC no. |
77076237 |
| ISBN |
0385120524 |
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