nazdravanii cu maestri si instrumente muzicale: ce face un mare muzician cand isi gaseste trompeta turtita? How did Dizzy get that bent horn? Like many important discoveries, Dizzys bent trumpet came about by accident. The story goes Dizzy threw a party for his wife, Lorraine, at Snookies in Manhattan on Jan. 6, 1953. Leaving his horn on a trumpet stand, he left to do a quick radio interview. The dance duo Stump and Stumpy started fooling around on the bandstand; Stump pushed Stumpy, who fell onto Dizzys horn, bending the bell skyward. It was such an unsettling sight that saxophonist Illinois Jacquet left the club before Gillespie returned; he didnt want to be around when the jazzman saw his misshapen horn and blew his top. But Gillespie kept his cool. It was my wifes birthday and I didnt wanna be a drag, he wrote in his autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop. I put the horn to my mouth and started playing. I played it and I liked the sound . . . it could be played softly, very softly, not blarey. He had the horn straightened out the next day but couldnt get that sound out of his mind. I remembered the way the sound had come from it, quicker to the ear, my ear, Gillespie recalled. The 45- degree angle brought the bell closer and let him hear the sound sooner. He had his wife draw the bent trumpet, sent the picture to the Martin Co. and asked it to make him one. Company officials called the idea crazy, but they made the trumpet and Ive been playing one like that ever since. With my instrument, when you hit a note, Bam! You hear it right then. Its only a split second, but a split second means a lot. Gillespie couldnt patent his bent-bell trumpet because a Frenchman named Dupont invented a horn with a slightly raised bell in the 1860s. The trumpet in the Smithsonian show was custom-made for Gillespie by the King Co. in 1972. He played it for more than a decade until he got a new Schilke trumpet as a 65th-birthday gift from his close friend and protege, the brilliant trumpeter Jon Faddis. Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie Saxaphone/Flute - James Moody Bass - Christopher White Piano - Kenny Barron Drums - Rudy Collins
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:55:03 +0000
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