Dizzy Gillespie in Helsinki - Jambo Caribe

Dizzy Gillespie plays Jambo Caribe with
Olli Ahvenlahti - piano, Eero Koivistoinen - saxophone, Reino "Reiska" laine - drums and - upright bass

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Music

Tags:

• Dizzy
• Gillespie
• Jambo
• Caribe
• Olli
• Ahvenlahti
• Eero
• Koivistoinen
• Reino
• Reiska
• Laine
• jazz

[Moarb1d]

@Abriggs500

a trumpet with an upward bell

[Abriggs500]

What instrument is Dizzy playing?

[elgoogskcus]

When Herbie played acoustic with Miles it was in a fusion idiom. MIles didn't use the label "jazz" for what he did (neither did Duke). He was doing something different, and so was Herbie

Even playing in a jazz idiom, Herbie's dark, ethereal sound and his "free" use of harmonics was anathema to Dizzy's festive approach. Tho he liked exotic rhythms, Diz didn't play pop-funk rhythms, nor did he play free. Just because both were accomplished musicians, doesn't mean they'd sound good together

[regionalable]

In the past years, Herbie was playing acoustic Piano, when he played with Miles Davis, and when and if he played with Diz, it would have been acoustic Piano, and not fusion.

[elgoogskcus]

By this time, Herbie Hancock was playing fusion. I've never heard a recording of Dizzy playing with an electric piano, let alone involving any kind of fusion type sound (the closest he got to rock and roll being "School Days) Herbie and Dizzy were not a natural pairing, at this time period especially.

[jimraw1]

I'm guessing this is around 1980. Diz was heading the United Nations Orchestra and playing with a number of different musicians including Arturo Sandoval. I know Diz went to Finland on several occassions, playing with several talented Finnish jazz musicians. The point isn't that Diz isn't playing with James Moody or Herbie Hancock, it's that he loved embracing different musicians from around the world (see his documentary of when he went to Havana).

[regionalable]

never mind what year is this, where is Mr. James Moody , he should be playing with the "Diz",  also on piano should have been Herbie Hancock, but never the less they'll do, these other guys that are with Diz

[saxman66]

what year was this performance?