How can anyone say Dizzy or any of the artists on this video were bad? These were some of the greatest people who ever made music! What a blessing it is for us to have such greats to look up to and to enjoy. It's a sad commentary on people today when Dizzy's cheeks are noticed more than the fact that he taught himself to play. I feel truly blessed to be able to enjoy what Dizzy Gillespie produced!
It's kinda hilarious that anyone is saying Dizzy was a bad musician. Sure, his cheeks are messed up, but really all that does is make me afraid that they're going to explode and he won't finish playing the song because he's an awesome musician
Did someone say Dizzy had poor musicianship? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats hillarious
Remember that those cheeks are like his trumpet. They made him who he was. They made him stand out in a crowd of very talented trumpet players in that era.
@annointedpianoman right, the same poor musicianship and lack of discipline that resulted in dizzy being one of the most prominent pioneers of bebop, and creating a huge amount of the extremely rich harmonic vocabulary for that style, vocabulary which people still copy to this day. i guess he was just kind of lazy.
I would have to say one of the most important groups without a doubt would be the Funk Brothers (especially for Motown). James Jameson could make a bass sing; they just grooved.
@annointedpianoman funny isn't how musical genius can compensate for someone's lack of good musicianship, discipline and technique. But having those things will never compensate for not having musical genius. I personally think he had all those things in abundance. Just my personal opinion.
@annointedpianoman Actually, if you werent a dumbass,you'd have realized that it is a condition called Subconscious Emphazima or something of that sort. Not from poor musicianship. Troll.
WOW!!! Listen to that King Super 20 sing! Moody's solo is fantastic. Gene Harris comps and solos great. The band is blazin. Wonderful video. Twentyfive years ago. Sendschills down my spine. Thanks for posting. I've listened to it over and over and sent to many friends.
@annointedpianoman dude go up to your mom,ask her about puffed cheeks,musicionship,discipline,and teqnique and youll get your first lesson on giving blowjobs
I love at the beginning of Moody's solo how the microphone's in the wrong position. Most people would be phased by this and panic, but not Moody. He retains composure, casually moves it into position and then rips out one of the tastiest solo entries I've ever heard.
Those criticizing Dizzy show their immaturity & stupidity. Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut. That may be hard for most of you since you probably have someone's cock firmly implanted in it!
RIP James Moody. After picking up the clarinet, Moody was the first sax player who inspired me to pick up the sax as well. His music will live on forever. His solo on this video says more than any words about the way he was able to play and move people! We love and miss you, Moody!
Please, let's keep it clean on here! Some people may have heard Dizzy on a lot of records, but are surprised by his cheeks. No need for insults. But the same goes for people that actually are surprised - don't "attack" Dizzy for his look on this video, he is a MASTER! He is THE MASTER actually. So no more "poor musicianship" comments and such absolutely unfounded comments. Read up on Dizzy before you comment, if you don't already know that he is probably the most important figure in jazz!
@lininho I don't know about "most important" figure in jazz. but then i again i don't know all too much about him. I don't know if there is a single specific #1 contributor to jazz, as every musician who has gone big has gone down in history as awesome jazz musicians. Who's to say that Louis Armstrong isn't the most influential? Or Miles Davis? What if you wanted to say Pat Metheny was the most important? I'm not disagreeing with you here, I just don't think one person is responsible for jazz.
@lininho I honestly don't know how one can pick out a single "most important figure" in jazz and, much as Diz enjoyed himself I don't think he'd have been willing to accept that mantle if you tried to start such a discussion with him.
That said, there is NO reasonable argument that he wasn't one of the most pivotal figures in the development of the music in the 20th Century, along with being a damned tasty player and one cool cat.
He made any room he was in a hipper place, just by being there.
@annointedpianoman dude your retared he a a cheek diesease. he doesnt have any cheek muscles so he cant help it.and dude even with no muscles ijn his cheeks he still plays better than you ever could
@annointedpianoman, Poor musicianship? Dizzy Gillespie? poor technique" Better go back and listen from 1940 forward to the history of the music. He and Moody WERE in their late 70s here. You'd better not have said that around Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Bird, countless others because they would have kicked your snotty little "I went to Berklee or the New School" whiteboy ass.Youtube has become a hideout for stupid negative do-nothing well,no playin mo fos like yourself. Bon Voyagr Moody
I dont how people that are nothing can talk with a lack of respect of a man like Dizzy Gillespie,it,s not a matter of cheeks is what comes out of the bell,ASSHOLES
@annointedpianoman I wouldn't use the term "poor musicianship" in the same sentence as the name Dizzy Gillespie ;) However, it is true - like I wrote earlier - that the cheeks come from his unusual ("wrong") blowing technique he taught himself early on.
I know people say that Gillespie's playing really declined in his later years, but it's not like he became a bad trumpeter. In his solo here, he seems aware of his limitations and plays with more of a controlled fire. I like it.
I like the double cd that he recorded playing as a duo with Max Roach in 1989- although you could tell that he gets tired around the midway point, he gets his second wind and finishes strong, aided by Roach's inventive drumming.
This makes me think of hearing this tune at the Cape May jazz festival just a few years ago. Even at 78,his solo brought down the house.Moody is a national treasure,for his music ,warmth and humor.God Bless him!!
@msg2clash yeah Ray has such a great basslines,,check out his version of blue monk with benny green,,such a nice basslines. Only to bad he's sometimes a bit out of tune in this performance.
@tbcass of course he plays outside the scale, sharp 4's all the time, but in his solo you really hear he's out of tune sometimes(the beginning of the bridge in his solo eg). nevertheless it are stil great lines and ray brown was the best. :)
To be honest, he plays well, but he plays wrong. A proper trumpeter, or any instrument for that matter, should be able to keep his cheeks from puffing out like that.
i was told that he had a disease that caused his cheek muscles to atrophy as a child which caused irreparable damage and he was physically incapable of holding them in. So don't be criticizing him. when you are instrumental in the formation of a new music form and are one of the best at that form of music in the world, then you can criticize dizz- but man please don't say anything but compliments about the greats- it only makes you look stupid.
Yes Grady is the man. Great cymbal beat. Some don't realise that Dizzy was way past his best by this time. At around the 5 minute he would have normally gone up the octave and the runs would have been faster a clean as a whistle. Still nice though. Thanks for posting.
dude his cheeks go beyond the norm. it's a bit scary. i heard somewhere that it's a medical condition, but i could be wrong about that. something called Gillespie Pouches
That should be great. When Dizzy died I was only 1 year old, so I never saw him. But in 2007 I saw James Moody here in Buenos Aires. His band was in New York, so he called Jorge Navarro Trio, and finally it was a jam session.
man i'm sorry, i love dizzy, i really do, but his solos towards the end of his life just really suck. was his embouchure ruined or something? drugs caught up to him?
Dizzy never was really into drugs unlike some of his peers who were *really* into them (I mean just think about Charlie Parker for example...) I remember reading something once, that his wife wouldn't "let" him get into drugs ;-)
I believe that due to his blowing technique, he wasn't able to control his playing so much anymore when he got older. I remember him jokingly saying something like now that he is more famous than ever, his playing is worse than ever or something like that....
@Saxation1 I really agree with you. I think he's the best bebop player, and when I listen some old records like Bird & Dizz I enjoy so much, noone can make me more excited. But it's true that wen he became older he played so noising and dirty, like in the recorded concert with Arturo Sandoval
The BUCCINATOR (a muscle of the cheek) was given its name because it compresses the cheeks during blowing, e.g. when a musician plays a wind instrument. Some trumpeters (notably the late Dizzy Gillespie) stretch their buccinators and other cheek muscles so much that their cheeks balloon out when they blow forcibly on their instruments.
his cheaks r big cause he he'lled the trumpet wrong cause thats how he felt comfterble so he had a spechial trumpet made 4 him thats how his cheaks got to be so big.
the cheeks have nothing to do with the special trumpet he had made. He just learned blowing the "wrong" way and started to feel comfortable, as you said. The "special trumpet" is another story...
I'll try to post more... can't believe this one got 32'000 views in a year.. those guys are amazing... oh and let's not even talk about god (gene harris) hehe
Definitely a Super-20!! Moody played one for years. When I first started seeing him annually at Chicago's Jazz Showcase, he had just switched to Selmer series II. I was disappointed as I had just purchased a King super 20 tenor!!! He ROCKED the Selmer, though!! He is now on Keilworth and sounds incredible. I still love my King!!!
Classic case of 'new knowlegde'... in 1985 Yanigasawa was nowhere NEAR the model you mention, and when they did their direct legendary predecessor and obvious inspiration was the King Super 20!
I got play with James Moody many years ago when I was a student at The University of Alabama in Steve Sample's Jazz Ensemble. He is one hell of a player. What a joy!
it doesn't matter. Whatever works. Don't hurt yourself, that's the key. Most people don't, some people do. Nobody can really tell you how to play. There are guides(teachers) but that's it really.
actually he blew his nerves in his cheeks, and then he actually used a razor and cut them so they would expand more, because he was a showman, and bebop was still young. he did whatever he could to get people to go to his shows.
Dizzy has puffy cheeks b/c of yrs of playing! They have just relaxed. I know of a guy who plays (supa lowery bros ) and his neck swells up on one side when he blows trumpet. That guy is gonna be great too.
How can anyone say Dizzy or any of the artists on this video were bad? These were some of the greatest people who ever made music! What a blessing it is for us to have such greats to look up to and to enjoy. It's a sad commentary on people today when Dizzy's cheeks are noticed more than the fact that he taught himself to play. I feel truly blessed to be able to enjoy what Dizzy Gillespie produced!
acmaras 1 week ago
It's kinda hilarious that anyone is saying Dizzy was a bad musician. Sure, his cheeks are messed up, but really all that does is make me afraid that they're going to explode and he won't finish playing the song because he's an awesome musician
AnaphylacticShark 3 weeks ago
i just wanna take a needle and pop em
ryanlord24 1 month ago
you know the audience understand music when the applauds come in a rhythmical pattern XD
MrPlatonist 1 month ago
Did someone say Dizzy had poor musicianship? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats hillarious
selpingos 2 months ago
btw, check Dizzy's virtuoso protegé Arturo Sandoval, in action:
youtube.com/watch?v=5bb2SzKcBFI&feature=colike
youtube.com/watch?v=nRVApqGVp1M&feature=colike
youtube.com/watch?v=HYzL-0C4iiY&feature=colike
rodcrippler 3 months ago
Dizzy, Ray and James, three of the greatest musicians ever and whom I had the privilege to know and be friends with.
furtherdefinitions 5 months ago
Gene Harris- One of the best pianists who has ever lived.
ChrisFishmanMusic 6 months ago
Remember that those cheeks are like his trumpet. They made him who he was. They made him stand out in a crowd of very talented trumpet players in that era.
73lifeswork 7 months ago 4
those r the biggest cheeks i have ever seen
DoubleJEM 7 months ago
HE HAS A 2nd ASS!!!!!
paladin1352 7 months ago
@paladin1352 once again ignorance thrives
jpbrolove 1 month ago
beautiful line: "he hides his soul in his cheeks"
letsrunbike 8 months ago
@annointedpianoman right, the same poor musicianship and lack of discipline that resulted in dizzy being one of the most prominent pioneers of bebop, and creating a huge amount of the extremely rich harmonic vocabulary for that style, vocabulary which people still copy to this day. i guess he was just kind of lazy.
flipadiddle 8 months ago
He hides his soul in his Cheeks :)
FruitBatties 9 months ago
I would have to say one of the most important groups without a doubt would be the Funk Brothers (especially for Motown). James Jameson could make a bass sing; they just grooved.
almostquiet 9 months ago
I like my metal, still I have the time for good quality music IE, Jazz "ni-ce!"
cfwbdude 11 months ago
AHHHHHHH HES A CHIPMUNK!!!!!!0.o
superNicko007 11 months ago
check out the tribute to James Moody on Sunday, Jan. 23rd, on
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frankpearce 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman funny isn't how musical genius can compensate for someone's lack of good musicianship, discipline and technique. But having those things will never compensate for not having musical genius. I personally think he had all those things in abundance. Just my personal opinion.
ZzFCNzZ 1 year ago
R.I.P James Moody
he is big with dizzy Naw the two playing together
jazzpiero95 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman Actually, if you werent a dumbass,you'd have realized that it is a condition called Subconscious Emphazima or something of that sort. Not from poor musicianship. Troll.
xmrbadonkadonkx 1 year ago
James appears to be using circular breathing. What a wonderful talent. All over the horn story telling. He will be missed.
rgs1940 1 year ago
@4:45 pent up house quote?
337music 1 year ago
WOW!!! Listen to that King Super 20 sing! Moody's solo is fantastic. Gene Harris comps and solos great. The band is blazin. Wonderful video. Twentyfive years ago. Sendschills down my spine. Thanks for posting. I've listened to it over and over and sent to many friends.
rgs1940 1 year ago
What a band!!!
Ray Brown=respect
nothingbutmuzik 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman dude go up to your mom,ask her about puffed cheeks,musicionship,discipline,and teqnique and youll get your first lesson on giving blowjobs
bwizzle1231 1 year ago
Gene Harris' solo shouldn't be overlooked in the slightest. So nicely structured. He even makes Ray smile with his blues injection at 07:11.
BlueinGreen2 1 year ago
Oh and if you are bothered by Dizzy's cheeks, just scroll down so the video's not on the page and LISTEN to the MUSIC.
BlueinGreen2 1 year ago
I love at the beginning of Moody's solo how the microphone's in the wrong position. Most people would be phased by this and panic, but not Moody. He retains composure, casually moves it into position and then rips out one of the tastiest solo entries I've ever heard.
That's how you do it.
BlueinGreen2 1 year ago
Those criticizing Dizzy show their immaturity & stupidity. Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut. That may be hard for most of you since you probably have someone's cock firmly implanted in it!
hulkjelly 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman Music often can be very relative, but are you sure about this?
OscarPetersonFan 1 year ago
RIP James Moody. After picking up the clarinet, Moody was the first sax player who inspired me to pick up the sax as well. His music will live on forever. His solo on this video says more than any words about the way he was able to play and move people! We love and miss you, Moody!
lininho 1 year ago 11
@lininho I saw him some years ago, his band stayed in New York, so he jammed with some great local musicians. Unforgettable!
OscarPetersonFan 1 year ago
@lininho Diz was not THE MASTER : he was THEEEEEEEEEEEEE MAAAAAAAAASTER
Shame on these fools who dont know nothing about jazz
Remember guys : Diz & Bird were the Giants who create this new form of jazz : Be Bop
RIP all these Giants including Getz,Ray Brown, Clifford Brown, John Lewis, Milt Jackson,Percy Heath, "Bags" and ALL the others....
goodtimerolling1 1 year ago
@lininho AMEN!!
postatility 8 months ago
Please, let's keep it clean on here! Some people may have heard Dizzy on a lot of records, but are surprised by his cheeks. No need for insults. But the same goes for people that actually are surprised - don't "attack" Dizzy for his look on this video, he is a MASTER! He is THE MASTER actually. So no more "poor musicianship" comments and such absolutely unfounded comments. Read up on Dizzy before you comment, if you don't already know that he is probably the most important figure in jazz!
lininho 1 year ago 15
@lininho I don't know about "most important" figure in jazz. but then i again i don't know all too much about him. I don't know if there is a single specific #1 contributor to jazz, as every musician who has gone big has gone down in history as awesome jazz musicians. Who's to say that Louis Armstrong isn't the most influential? Or Miles Davis? What if you wanted to say Pat Metheny was the most important? I'm not disagreeing with you here, I just don't think one person is responsible for jazz.
Nateisbored 10 months ago
@lininho I honestly don't know how one can pick out a single "most important figure" in jazz and, much as Diz enjoyed himself I don't think he'd have been willing to accept that mantle if you tried to start such a discussion with him.
That said, there is NO reasonable argument that he wasn't one of the most pivotal figures in the development of the music in the 20th Century, along with being a damned tasty player and one cool cat.
He made any room he was in a hipper place, just by being there.
beachdog67 10 months ago
@annointedpianoman dude your retared he a a cheek diesease. he doesnt have any cheek muscles so he cant help it.and dude even with no muscles ijn his cheeks he still plays better than you ever could
emiliodelrio33 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman, Poor musicianship? Dizzy Gillespie? poor technique" Better go back and listen from 1940 forward to the history of the music. He and Moody WERE in their late 70s here. You'd better not have said that around Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Bird, countless others because they would have kicked your snotty little "I went to Berklee or the New School" whiteboy ass.Youtube has become a hideout for stupid negative do-nothing well,no playin mo fos like yourself. Bon Voyagr Moody
lpsling 1 year ago
I dont how people that are nothing can talk with a lack of respect of a man like Dizzy Gillespie,it,s not a matter of cheeks is what comes out of the bell,ASSHOLES
apsomar 1 year ago
RIP Moody
64sirgalahad 1 year ago
RIP Mr. Moody... :(
Chillicat26 1 year ago
@annointedpianoman I wouldn't use the term "poor musicianship" in the same sentence as the name Dizzy Gillespie ;) However, it is true - like I wrote earlier - that the cheeks come from his unusual ("wrong") blowing technique he taught himself early on.
lininho 1 year ago
Can someone explain the bent trumpet? (sorry I play the oboe)
lennic95 1 year ago
@lennic95 I can tell. That's signature Dizzy. He got a trumpet like that on accident and liked its sound.
musicmanson 1 year ago
I know people say that Gillespie's playing really declined in his later years, but it's not like he became a bad trumpeter. In his solo here, he seems aware of his limitations and plays with more of a controlled fire. I like it.
I like the double cd that he recorded playing as a duo with Max Roach in 1989- although you could tell that he gets tired around the midway point, he gets his second wind and finishes strong, aided by Roach's inventive drumming.
jthemump 1 year ago
James Moody plays so ballsy here!
AmundLauritzen 1 year ago
@AmundLauritzen Listen his records with Mingus lots of balls~!
weskoki 1 year ago
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uprayup 1 year ago
his cheeks are so fucked
mohamadbomber 1 year ago
@mohamadbomber That's the funniest thing Ive heard all year! hahaha
SunnyLovetts 1 year ago
James MOODY's really killing !
nadinecohenjazz 1 year ago
gene harris...absolutely killing it
Stevenelow 1 year ago
to all that say that he didnt take drugs, he is reported to smoke weed. I mean if that's not a drug to you, then OK, it isn't for me either
DajaWaja 1 year ago
I had the pleasure of working with Dizzy many moons ago :o)
theoriginalsweetlucy 1 year ago
hooooly! that's weeeeeird! (Dizzy's cheeks)
fermillo65 1 year ago
there are 2 really idiotic people if they dislike this
TheRealWhiteBoy1 1 year ago
Take off that hot jacket, Gene Harris, before you sweat yourself to death!
denzelsnipes69 1 year ago
Since I listen jazz, i feel really happy. Is the only music that makes me laugh :)
holypower109 1 year ago
Sometimes Moody is so good,it's like he's on another planet.
postatility 1 year ago
To Saxation1: he wasn't on drugs, you idiot! He was aging!
CORKYANDERSON 1 year ago
Dizzy never did Drugs He was an awesome example as a BAHA'I and He still is an example.
TheNinjaMetalero 1 year ago
This makes me think of hearing this tune at the Cape May jazz festival just a few years ago. Even at 78,his solo brought down the house.Moody is a national treasure,for his music ,warmth and humor.God Bless him!!
postatility 1 year ago
lol blatant "David Baker's Mother" lick at 5:30
teecubed333 1 year ago
lol blatant "David Baker's Mother" lick couple times at 5:30
teecubed333 1 year ago
Not like a frog more like blowfish lol
azaces100 1 year ago
@azaces100
it's scary though...
hendrixexperiencedig 1 year ago
Dizzy the bebop God. To you haters!
decus69 1 year ago
i wonder if his cheeks were as flexible as that when he began... ;D
absolut3000 1 year ago
Love the bass lines Ray is playing during the Gene Harris solo - it's a study in itself
msg2clash 1 year ago 3
@msg2clash yeah Ray has such a great basslines,,check out his version of blue monk with benny green,,such a nice basslines. Only to bad he's sometimes a bit out of tune in this performance.
uumke 1 year ago
@uumke I don't think he's playing out of tune but he's including chromatic lines which include notes which are outside the scale.
tbcass 1 year ago
@tbcass of course he plays outside the scale, sharp 4's all the time, but in his solo you really hear he's out of tune sometimes(the beginning of the bridge in his solo eg). nevertheless it are stil great lines and ray brown was the best. :)
uumke 1 year ago
He looks like a frog...
Ninjajohnny19 1 year ago
lol xD
chickenrok 1 year ago
For those wondering about his cheeks, I strongly recommend you to learn a little bit about jazz and its history before saying stupid bullshit...
P1c2m3s4 1 year ago
do the cheeks really matter or maybe the important thing here is the sound?
CHOWENproductions 1 year ago 3
To be honest, he plays well, but he plays wrong. A proper trumpeter, or any instrument for that matter, should be able to keep his cheeks from puffing out like that.
NickNickNicki 1 year ago
i was told that he had a disease that caused his cheek muscles to atrophy as a child which caused irreparable damage and he was physically incapable of holding them in. So don't be criticizing him. when you are instrumental in the formation of a new music form and are one of the best at that form of music in the world, then you can criticize dizz- but man please don't say anything but compliments about the greats- it only makes you look stupid.
thepeople1325 1 year ago
dizzy looks like a croaking frog or toad but good solos I would have been gasping for air after james moody's solo
rickylascaze001 1 year ago
I search "ow" and this is what i get? lol:) his cheeks are HUGE!
Brittanyluvsmj 2 years ago
"I gets bizzy, I make you head dizzy, i blow up your mouth like you was Dizzy Gillespie"
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MackTheKnife12 2 years ago
dla
Padannitan 2 years ago
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its funny how only black people play this type of music
reyjed619 2 years ago
@reyjed619 HA wow you're really stupid. put this at the end of the youtube homepage address: /watch?v=TChocbG_TTI
minime220220 2 years ago
mad nice solo from moody
Reinocerous25 2 years ago
why does that get a thumbs down?
Reinocerous25 2 years ago
Damn !! Gene Harris is the man!!
henrylin362006 2 years ago 2
lol his cheecks
Kaenanthebarbarian 2 years ago 4
that cheek thing is kinda gross. O.o
xxOnyxWeaponxx 2 years ago
james moody is a monster!!!!!!
jadzn1 2 years ago 2
dizzy look like a frog hahah
Jerkking10 2 years ago 4
i feel like their cheeks are gonna pop!!
WelshCorgiO 2 years ago
That is just what I am feeling too. No other brass player but Dizzy do I know who has a habit to puff up his cheeks to that extent.
BLOWER42 2 years ago
He couldn't help it. It was a physical problem with his mouth.
nathanaddison 2 years ago
Thank you for your comment.
BLOWER42 2 years ago
Yes Grady is the man. Great cymbal beat. Some don't realise that Dizzy was way past his best by this time. At around the 5 minute he would have normally gone up the octave and the runs would have been faster a clean as a whistle. Still nice though. Thanks for posting.
griffot 2 years ago
Yeah, Grady Tate! I love the hats on all four! Swings hard...
Kegrath 2 years ago 3
wow
kale32123 2 years ago
ray brown has somalian roots. nice white teeth.
ashrafilm 2 years ago
So this is where all those walking lines on rhythm changes I need to learn have been hiding! Ray Brown is the man.
mackyouaccount 2 years ago 3
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at 0.13 wrong note
trestresbrel 2 years ago
dude his cheeks go beyond the norm. it's a bit scary. i heard somewhere that it's a medical condition, but i could be wrong about that. something called Gillespie Pouches
Theseventhknight 2 years ago 5
@Theseventhknight GillespiePouches lol rofl
jgv93 1 year ago
@Theseventhknight he played like that all the time. So he ended up herniating or however you spell that word some muscles in hs cheek.
TheRealWhiteBoy1 1 year ago
Stupendous!!
utbr01 2 years ago
creepy...
spicynachojp 2 years ago
Man!!-Awesome!!
TempoPoet 2 years ago
i know it's dizzy gillespie, but... watching him puff his cheeks is so frustrating 3=
ClayPeopleBroadcast 2 years ago
Man, why did this ever have to end?
beeshor1 2 years ago
That trumpet players nick name shoul be "Cheeks"
eugenerichard 2 years ago
"That trumpet player"? He's not just a trumpet player; he is THE trumpet player! The giant Dizzy Gillespie!
OscarPetersonFan 2 years ago 5
De GIANT . and da MASTER
bopkick5 2 years ago
Absolutely right!!
OscarPetersonFan 2 years ago
right ! it woz an honour to hav been able to see him live 3 times when he used ta come to london to do shows in the 80s
bopkick5 2 years ago
That should be great. When Dizzy died I was only 1 year old, so I never saw him. But in 2007 I saw James Moody here in Buenos Aires. His band was in New York, so he called Jorge Navarro Trio, and finally it was a jam session.
OscarPetersonFan 2 years ago
cool ! i've never seen de moody master live . . . i very much hopes to tho :-)
bopkick5 2 years ago
Too bad it's Dizzy.
musicmanson 2 years ago
Gene Harris. . . yes sir. I miss his approach. Funky. Bluesy. Oh ya. Kinda Jazzy too.
prustygunn 2 years ago 2
Yeah!! Go James Moody.......that is some soulfull hard bop!
Publix1115 2 years ago
HAHAHAAA!!! his cheeks are funny!! :3!!
alejarren 2 years ago 2
dizzys cheek muscles fell aprt some disease
jamesforshaw1 2 years ago
Moody's mouthpice almost looks like a Guardala..I think
USAFjazztenor1 2 years ago
man i'm sorry, i love dizzy, i really do, but his solos towards the end of his life just really suck. was his embouchure ruined or something? drugs caught up to him?
Saxation1 2 years ago
Dizzy never was really into drugs unlike some of his peers who were *really* into them (I mean just think about Charlie Parker for example...) I remember reading something once, that his wife wouldn't "let" him get into drugs ;-)
I believe that due to his blowing technique, he wasn't able to control his playing so much anymore when he got older. I remember him jokingly saying something like now that he is more famous than ever, his playing is worse than ever or something like that....
lininho 2 years ago 5
@lininho that's it, excatly
michalskij 1 year ago
@Saxation1 Dude was a Baha'i. No drugs, no drinking. His solos were what 'he' wanted to play.
voiceaddict 1 year ago
@Saxation1 I really agree with you. I think he's the best bebop player, and when I listen some old records like Bird & Dizz I enjoy so much, noone can make me more excited. But it's true that wen he became older he played so noising and dirty, like in the recorded concert with Arturo Sandoval
Lotrompetista 1 year ago
@Saxation1 Diz NEVER did drugs --- he was a B'hai.
jb
JoeySunB 1 year ago
gene harris melts my brain into ecstasy.
Smilowitz 2 years ago 2
moody is going to be performing at new jersey city university sometime in october in '09
ellarue0419 2 years ago
Moody is the best.
decus69 2 years ago
What is the name of the song?
izbuljeidrvonadrvo 2 years ago
it's called "Ow!" as it says in the title. It's just another rhythm changes tune :-)
lininho 2 years ago
greeeeeeeeeet
alexistexias 2 years ago
Dizzy is the man!!!
RedPortiaOne 2 years ago 3
just a correctiong, Dizzy is playing a brass instrument.....................not wind
Element105 2 years ago
LOL. And what do you think is making the sound, pixie dust? Wind. Brass and woodwind are both wind instruments.
bigdjindustriez 2 years ago
The BUCCINATOR (a muscle of the cheek) was given its name because it compresses the cheeks during blowing, e.g. when a musician plays a wind instrument. Some trumpeters (notably the late Dizzy Gillespie) stretch their buccinators and other cheek muscles so much that their cheeks balloon out when they blow forcibly on their instruments.
3shtar18 2 years ago
That's one way he explained it, but I think I have read other versions of the story, too. So you never know if he was kinda joking around hehe
lininho 2 years ago
I have always liked Moody with his light sound and fast execution.
BuckshotLaFunke 3 years ago
his cheaks r big cause he he'lled the trumpet wrong cause thats how he felt comfterble so he had a spechial trumpet made 4 him thats how his cheaks got to be so big.
popstarzxxx 3 years ago
the cheeks have nothing to do with the special trumpet he had made. He just learned blowing the "wrong" way and started to feel comfortable, as you said. The "special trumpet" is another story...
lininho 3 years ago
Dizzy looks like a frog when he plays
unknownfakename 3 years ago
More from this concert would be just wonderful & greatly appreciated! (Any flute from Moody??).
ColmOSullivanRed 3 years ago
I'll try to post more... can't believe this one got 32'000 views in a year.. those guys are amazing... oh and let's not even talk about god (gene harris) hehe
lininho 3 years ago
Grady Tate is a bad motherfucker.
ask3625 3 years ago 5
LOL WHAT THE FUCK
cenyan13 3 years ago
look at the size of the trumpet guys cheeks when he blows!!!! holy crap!!!
zero6994 3 years ago
is that a yanagisawa T-9930 tenor sax?
jsdcartel 3 years ago
im pretty sure its a king super 20
Jazzman555 3 years ago
Yup. That's the legendary Super 20!
ghostofdolphy 2 years ago
Definitely a Super-20!! Moody played one for years. When I first started seeing him annually at Chicago's Jazz Showcase, he had just switched to Selmer series II. I was disappointed as I had just purchased a King super 20 tenor!!! He ROCKED the Selmer, though!! He is now on Keilworth and sounds incredible. I still love my King!!!
DMAclub 2 years ago
anybody know what mouthpiece moody is using?
Mattytheman91 2 years ago
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Jazzman555 2 years ago
Classic case of 'new knowlegde'... in 1985 Yanigasawa was nowhere NEAR the model you mention, and when they did their direct legendary predecessor and obvious inspiration was the King Super 20!
ptraad 2 years ago
James Moody, Dizzie, Ray Brown nothing could be better! jamming bebooping! as Dizzie once said: to be or not to bop! fantastic!
brunogebarski 3 years ago
OMFG....scary.
purplerheadiva11 3 years ago
Anyone with such flexible cheeks would've rocked. Wow.
noiz87 3 years ago
cheeks lmao!
hebronsawyers 3 years ago
that bathroom scene from the movie cable guy is hillarious
ilikenakidchixxx 3 years ago
James Moody looks like a black Peter Erskine
JeikabuAronso 3 years ago
you mean peter erskine looks like a white james moody
dreiffie1219 3 years ago 4
sup supupsupspuusp
cardflipper0101 3 years ago
Wow. That is a real all stars
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 5
he looks like a blowfish!!! hahaha
zweasle 3 years ago
look at his cheeks! he's a frog! hahah
locobeis 3 years ago
A GEM
millsbrothers 3 years ago
all god's of their own instrument.. that's amazing.
supercoolreiber 3 years ago 2
Yeah
Lotrompetista 3 years ago
now this is real music!!!
chillbrotha01 3 years ago 4
Love so much Gene Harris!!
K1000oner 3 years ago 4
I got play with James Moody many years ago when I was a student at The University of Alabama in Steve Sample's Jazz Ensemble. He is one hell of a player. What a joy!
jazzyla9 3 years ago
some one please reply to this question!
With Dizzy's mouth as he plays,
are you meant to puff out your cheeks like that?!!?
xOtaliOx 3 years ago
it doesn't matter. Whatever works. Don't hurt yourself, that's the key. Most people don't, some people do. Nobody can really tell you how to play. There are guides(teachers) but that's it really.
trmptguy11 3 years ago
Not really...
He just formed a habit of puffing his cheeks, and the stress eventually stretched his cheek skin, this is the result.
t3hm4n 3 years ago
actually he blew his nerves in his cheeks, and then he actually used a razor and cut them so they would expand more, because he was a showman, and bebop was still young. he did whatever he could to get people to go to his shows.
127470 3 years ago
Dizzy has puffy cheeks b/c of yrs of playing! They have just relaxed. I know of a guy who plays (supa lowery bros ) and his neck swells up on one side when he blows trumpet. That guy is gonna be great too.
dieudonneMC 3 years ago 2