Dizzy Gillespie Interview PART 2 of 3

1982

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dizzy
• Gillespie
• Jazz
• Trumpet

[TheFlamingNuns]

that interviewer's such a douche, he keeps patronizing a guy who probably has triple his IQ

[orkavorn]

Why is it that all the greats get interviewed by dicks who ask stupid questions, make silly statements, and cut people off before they're finished!?

btw thanks for posting! ;P

[chasefreak]

Ya gotta love these "interviewers" for jazz legends later in their careers. Rock & Pop music did not push jazz aside, the '60's saw a resurgance of hard swinging big band jazz (Herman, Rich, Kenton) and an overall peeked interest in jazz (Dizzy, Miles, Freddie, Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry), the '70's saw the creation of jazz/rock fusion. I don't think jazz was "pushed aside", then again being a "jazzer" my opnion may be biased...

[littlebones18]

Fuckin this guy is a douchebag. So the dope was only in the jazz community. Fuck him.

[superugly75]

The interviewer is a douche...

[tomthefunky]

Just the other night I saw an interview with Greg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band. His brother Duane died in a motorcycle accident. The interviewer asked him "Do you remember when you got the call your brother was killed? Is that memory still fresh in your mind"?

I've pretty much come to expect the stupidest questions imaginable when reporters open their mouths.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

Direct quote from the interviewer: "What does it take to make a great trumpet player? Got any notion?"  WTF? With the possible exception of Louis Armstrong, he is asking the greatest human to ever pick up a trumpet if he knows ANYTHING about what makes a great player. Unreal. Dizzy plays him off beautifully, delaying, then giving him a blow off answer about the need to be a great "shit" detector. The guy has no clue Diz sees he's a fool and is blowing him off.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@tommymorey Nobody said the comparison had to be to somebody else these companies had on their payroll who could do a better job. Most of them were incompetent like the one here, with a few exceptions. The comparison is to a standard of excellence. Since the companies that hired jazz interviewers never equated the status of a jazz performer to that of other important individuals, they assigned any idiot to do the interview, critic the music or write the story.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@tommymorey The interviewer's voice does sound a bit like Cavet, but if you know anything about Cavet, this AIN'T Cavet. This guy doesn't have anywhere near Cavet's intelligence and Cavet knows Jazz unlike this clown, so he would never come across this ignorant and disrespectful.

[rillloudmother]

@blackvitruvianman Charlie Rose is not as dumb as you think, this stuff is from 1982. The whole world was much dumber in 1982...

[tommymorey]

Charlie Rose? The interviewer sounds like Dick Cavet. Most comments are about the poor job he's doing. Well, compared to what, who else interviewed jazz musicians?

[fsmtdaler]

Thanks God! I got to meet Dizzy once. Very genuine heart and soul. Love for people. Love for Baha'u'llah.