Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie emerged in the middle of the 1940's as essentially the last in a series of symbolic progressions of virtuosity in jazz that culminated in the consolidation of bebop. If Charlie Parker was the soul of bebop Gillespie was it's heart and public face. If Armstrong had expanded this reach of instrumental technique for his generation making more things possible and if Roy Eldridge and Charlie Shavers extended the reach of virtuosity still farther embracing stil
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A look at the great trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie, performing live at the New Jersey Festival in 1987. Tracks featured include: 'Gillespiana - First Movement', 'Birk's Works', 'Gillespiana - The Blues', 'Manteca' and 'Night in Tunisia'.
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