Dizzy Gillespie - Round About Midnight (Finland, 1982)

Dizzy Gillespie as a guest with Umo in Finland in 1982 playing "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk. Solos by Dizzy on trumpet, Juhani Aaltonen on alto sax and Juhani Aalto on trombone.

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• dizzy
• gillespie
• umo
• finland
• 1982
• round
• midnight
• yt:stretch=4:3
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Juhani Aaltonen
• Junnu Aaltonen
• Juhani Aalto
• Olli Ahvenlahti
• Round Midnight
• Thelonious Monk

[layoutzz]

You must be out of your mind or you have exceptionally bad taste. This is a fabulous version played by a master. Even Dizzy's flawed solo is priceless!! Dizzy wrote the intro you hear in this version and it's the intro used by most musicians--including Monk and Miles. Bravo to Dizzy for a job done well.

[dave3ooo]

study some of his solo's...it seems as though he plays any note and it seems to fit perfectly into the the progression. there's always some relatively good harmonic merit to everything he plays..although he doesn't always stay in the chord progression

[Vininn126]

Watching him is like watching a frog....

[Whatisthescore]

ok. I admit as he developed he found different permutations of his melodic ideas, not so much his rhythmic ideas imo. stylistically imo he virtually stayed exactly the same through all parts of his career and I find that somewhat boring. I'm in the miles/coltrane "always changing" school of thought. And, if you're going to take the "same style" route I think chet would be a good example of that in the way he gets lyrically slicker, learning how to never bs melodically as he got older.

[noiresoldier]

Dizzy's initial development was his "concept" of improv, not the actual lines. So however redundant his later work may seem to some, there were subtle differences in everything Diz played b/c of his usage of rhythmic and harmonic permutations. That's what makes one solo different from the next

[Whatisthescore]

explain..

[noiresoldier]

It's obvious this cat has no idea of the actual "innovations" of jazz improvisation...otherwise this comment would never have been typed

[tehqin]

its sad when you have to stop playing your instrument entirely because bad technique. I beat it really hurt armstrong not never be able to play his horn again...

[z2d2]

traditionally it's bad form to puff out your cheeks while playing and is supposed to effect your tone quality, but if it works for Dizzy, i don't see why HE should stop, same with Louis Armstrong, his embouchure is so screwed up he had to stop playing... but his tone....

[Whatisthescore]

dizzy's crazy...he developed like crazy when he played with bird and then just like that he stopped and played the same style same lines for like 30 years.

[54spiritedwill54]

wow amazing vid!

[Jazzman1985]

Nice version!