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Dizzy Found His Own Groove Innovate: John Gillespie had the resolve to play his trumpet like none had dared.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: KEN HOOVER
Dizzy Gillespie just couldn't stop experimenting. Even when it cost him his job.
Which it did, more often than not.
After he performed on warm summer nights in the late 1930s at the famed Cotton Club in New York City's Harlem, Gillespie took other musicians - such as bass player Milt Hinton -- to the club's roof and taught them his way of playing so they could fit with Gillespie's emerging style on the trumpet.
It was far different than the Big Band style of the groups he played with. And his bosses definitely didn't like it.
Cab Calloway, the band leader who gave Gillespie his first taste of national exposure, derisively called Gillespie's solos "Chinese music." He ordered him to stop. Two other band leaders, Les Hite and Lucky Millinder, fired Gillespie for playing what one called "that racket."
Still, Gillespie (1917-93) refused to quit. He plugged on, inventing ever-new riffs and techniques.
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