I am NOT a fan of this interviewer at all, but I appreciate you for posting this interview. I ADORE this man. Dizzy Gillespie was the first non-Hispanic to appreciate and to champion Afro-Cuban jazz. His friendship with Chano Pozo and with Mario Bauzá helped to revolutionize the sound of jazz itself.

"every time is modern"

Finally realized that Bill Cosby is imitating Dizzy Gillespie.

I'm sure Dizzy picked it up too.. I love how he keeps his composure... He was an amazing guy.

I wish that I could have met this man. What an inspiration!

I just LOVE Dizzie. I cried like a baby when I heard of his death. A truly great musician and a wonderful human being.

I saw Diz and Sara Vaughn, Max Roach, and Buddy R. At Monterey Jazz! Dizzie was dressed so casual in African dress! He played Congas between trumpet solos.Diz introduced this well dressed man in a suit, from Jullards, plays rumpet! The young man was excellent, playin rapid fire notes, clean and slick. Dizzy watched him, as Diz played congas. Diz smiled at the youngster. Then, it was Dizzies turn. Weren't no triplets nor musical acrobatics. Diz took his time, held his horn then casually, pressed the horn to his lips and took his time with every note. So beautiful and soulful. I was blessed, as were all the audience, black and white. Yes sir. Mr. Gillespie, music is universal! Thank ya !!

I love this guy. I miss him. A true genius of the art. Humble as you can get.

Diz is just the sweetest and most charming character in Jazz, ever. Beautiful human being. I think the interviewer is Dick Cavett. He is certainly not an ass. He is actually quite sympathetic; Nicer than many other TV hosts, I can think of.

still stands out in my memory as the best concert I ever saw..lifted us right up..

I so wish I could have met this man! He was (still is, in spirit) just amazing!

I love Dizzy he had a heck of a good sense of humor and Personality.

The interviewer sounds very condescending. He had the nerve to say to Dizzy that his cheek muscles puffed-out due to weakness, and Dizzy's reponse, "I don't know what it is but I don't sound too weak do I?" Classic response! Not to mention that he ask Dizzy a question and then interrupts him in the process of answering it, to provide his own incorrect answer. Very unprofessional annyoing bloke!

"if you lived to be 1000 years old, you'd never mess with this boy..." legend

what can a "poor boy do" but REVOLUTIONIZE MUSIC!!!

the questions the interviewer males, my god. asking about money and shit like that.... Diz did it because he loved the music... gaining stuff was not even in his wildest dreams... his life was to phrase like he did, and as he does because he will remain alive in his music, and though humanity doesn't listen to this quality of fine and elegant music anymore, there will always be a kid like me who will be blown away by the frog man, wailing at incredible tempos and connecting those movements with that bebop idiom:) i love you Diz, thank you for your energy....

Damn what a trumpet player. Saying you can never master it; feeling that the instrument has its own personality and playing accordingly. I wish I was that musical to feel that way about any instrument.

Greatest Musician ever.

Because of his dizzy personality, people often forget that he was a profoundly advanced musical genius, an innovative virtuoso, composer, and improviser of the very first rank !

when he says, "you didn't carry your trumpet in a brown paper bag" he is referring to Bix Beiderbecke, a very influential cornet player from the 20's...he lost his mind and would walk around town with his cornet in a brown paper bag...tragic story

i would love to have met dizzy, he seems so awsome.

wow...."don't play it?" that's like telling picasso, "no, stop that. don't paint anything!"

His vocabulary was great.

What a human being, gone but not forgotten!!..

This is my uncle :) haha

What a guy. I wish i coud've met him

Awesome knowledge from the master. My Lawd

what, I never knew that Dizzy is such a great guy, super funny humble sensitive intelligent tough. he got it ! I love him now!! Im listening all of his recordings different from now on, Im looking much forward to play some of his solos, to become a little little little bit like him or at least understand a way of his thinking.

I wish that I could've lived in the time of dizzy and been his friend he seems like a great man

he use to dance with my mom at monterey jazz festival down the aisles, it was a trip, he's the best

The interviewer is very interesting.

So, DizzyFanatic,...there was an HBO special on Quincy Jones, 20 something years ago, that had Miles, Dizzy,...tons of other people,....but the Dizzy portions of the interview were priceless, including a story he told about Charlie Parker. In the story, he and Bird were playing some club down south and somebody broke a bottle over Dizzy's head. Charlie came out and found Dizzy bleeding and according to him, Bird said, "you cur,....you have struck my friend." Even in the seriousness of the situation Dizzy found humor in Parker calling this guy a "cur". I'd love to see that again. Any chance you have access to that? At any rate, enjoyed what you have.

I'm a musician and a music journalist who always knows his subject and the people I interview can tell that I'm one of them and it makes a huge difference. I never got to interview Diz! I would have been prepared.

musical genius...

I love him so much. Awww!

Diz was my teachers teacher - a musical genius on the level of Mozart. This is no exaggeration. I challenge anyone to scat sing what Diz did at the beginning of the interview :-)

Wonderful!

Dizzy was great!! Such a warm person!!

For some reason the interviewer sounds to me obnoxious... almost disrespectful.

Such a happy soul Dizz is

what a humble man

4:05 is the best clip to understand what a musicians career is like

The great artist as art himself.

From all accounts he was modest, humble man. To me a genius.

Dizzy Gillespie 1945 that's the Year everything started to break BIG TIME for both DIZZY and CHARLIE PARKER.

2:40 is what you're here for. You're welcome.

Some of the people leaving comments criticizing the interviewer appear to me as being guilty of racial snobbery. The interviewer, who obviously is white, was very down to earth and genuinely curious. He asked good questions that many people who aren’t Dizzy experts would want to ask if given the opportunity. And both men obviously enjoyed each other’s company. I was lucky enough to see DG play a gig in 1989. But I have no patience with some of these “woke” elitists who think that they wrote the book on how to conduct an interview with jazz musicians.

Que gran musico, que gran ser humano.

Akinseye-actually Dizzy DID have a condition which caused his cheeks to bullfrog out (if you will) like they did and it sadly did catch up with him as he got older. Many of us trumpeters can get a rupture in the neck (or lower), which will cause the same effect (like Bill Chase had) that is caused by "bottle-ing" up the air and delaying your attacks when you're coming along. What Diz had was different, true the guy doing the interview seemed out of his element asking a lot of useless questions.

dizzy always high as fuck love this guy

Dizzy giving us a little serial killer techniques

Dizzy was always a teacher

dizzy for president

The cut this interview to pieces! smh!

He has a funny way of saying things but you understand every point

He was on the faculty of the .lenox school of Jazz

i like his hat

The rise of the Bebop drummers, during this organic change in Jazz brought rhythm into the contrapunctal scheme of the music.

I never get the respect I deserve that's why I hate getting interviewed --- Nas

Dizzy was the coolest

Teach Master!!!!!!!

I SUSPECT THE ANNUAL BUBBLE GUM BLOWING COMPETITION ORGANISERS WOULD'VE BANNED GILLESPIE FORTHRIGHT FROM EVER ENTERING WHAT UNDOUBTEDLY WOULD BE AN ASSUMED 'BREEZE' EVENT FOR THE LEGEND!

This guy is not a great interviewer (and he is NOT Dick Cavett*) but he is forgotten and Dizzy lives on as one of history's great musicians - both as player and person. Great to hear him talk. *Interviewer sounds similar to Dick Cavett but if you listen to any of the many Dick Cavett interviews on youtube you can tell it is not him.

gr8 guy...

I agree.

Pause at 5:02 and 5:04

na you hit em with this part check it out hahahah hell yea

@decus69 I think i read somewhere that he got the name because his "Dizzy" personality. Not entirely sure. I would of loved to of met him. Seems such a chilled nice dude.

DAMN!

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I guess he got the nick name 'Dizzy' as his middle name was Birk - Berk.

The interviewer is *not* Dick Cavett. I can hear some similarities in the voice but it's absolutely not him.

I think everyone is saying the interviewer is a jerk because the video is edited in such a way as to almost seem as if the interviewer is interrupting or switching subjects while Dizzy is speaking. That's just it. It's an edited interview.

Date of interview and name of interviewer?

What modern musician is gonna say something's a misnomer? They prolly don't even know that word.

DIZZY GAGA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6:05 interviewer was about to say how did you died :P

Dizzy Gillespie was the 1st guy to bend it like that?

The interviewer attempting some bizarre affected accent which is not native to his speech is so unbelievably offensive. I met Mr. Gillespie when I was a teenager after a concert he performed in Massachusetts. There were 5 or 10 of us young folk there. He was incredibly warm and friendly to us, he spoke to us for about 30 minutes. Truly nice man.

god the interviewer "Don't play it". You don't interview dizzy and tell him not to play the trumpet...

Why was the interviewer bad? I didn't listen too much to him, so I really can't say..

What a great interview..thanx to Dick Cavett

@mikhailr13 Yes he was the Main man

It's Dick Cavett and he lost his mind that night.

this interviewer doesn't seem respectful, he is in the presence of greatness, saying he has weak throat muscles as a world reknown trumpet player is like saying Michael Jordan can't jump.

Yeah, I agree with previous comments. The interviewer is being eeeeever so slightly exploitative here. Not sure what the word for that is, but it's noticeable.

The interviewer smugly described the Dizzy as a youth as a poor "boy".

What’s wrong with the interviewer ? Lotsa hate on here , he sounds fine to me .

You are so much for a

hahah you hit with that. hes one funny bastad!

The interviewer had the nerves to call Dizzy “ a boy “ ? “You were a poor boy growing up “ so disrespectful

dizzy is the best this interviewer is the worst

who is the interviewer? some say dick cavett some say no? let's find out who it was....

Cuanto racismo en esta entrevista.

interviewer is cavett

he seems disrespectful to a certain degree... saying mama... stuff like that... there are some racial undertones.. "aint fair the call you that, huh?"

condescending irritating interviwer. whats with imitating his accent and calling him boy?

That interviewer sounds racist his undertones and use of words this sounds like Dick Cavett