word. check out Mike Longo's music and pedagogical materials; he carried Dizzy's spirit in his own way.

Kate Pruitt thanks Kate! We will be releasing a cassette/digital EP this fall. Keep your eyes & ears peeled : ) so glad you like the music 🙏🏻

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an awesome story, glad you had that experience, and thx for sharing it

So special!

Glad you approached him for an autograph and you experienced his generosity and beautiful spirit. Thank you for sharing your wonderful story!

Same, it inspires me to work on my rhythm! One of those pieces of advice that I’ll always remember. Dizzy was an amazing teacher

teddy d I think Diz was referring to the bands that incorporated jazz elements into the pop/rock beat i.e. CHASE, BS&T, early CHICAGO, Ten Wheel Drive, Lighthouse & Dreams to name just a few..of course there were others like Mahavishnu Orchestra as well...

Check out Frank Zappa and The Mother's Of Invention

steely dan

Outside jazz migrating into rock venues as early as this interview late 60's early 70's was the Free Spirits: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Spirits Although the barely appreciated harmonic arranger\producer Charles Stepney in Chicago left some room for improvisation within his brilliant compositions, charts and arrangements for Minnie Riperton's first band ROTARY CONNECTION (she was still singing under the name Andrea Davis and collaborating on creating material that defied categorization with her creative partner Richard Rudolph, their daughter is the SNL and film improvising actress Maya Rudolph). Charles Stepney & Richard Rudolph's production, arrangement, composition and songwriting collaborations with Minnie on the few Riperton masterpiece albums just before she left Chicago for L.A. and her production partner-ship with Stevie WonderLove Wonder's studios are sublime. I've read some jazz scribes who were getting it at the time of Minnie Riperton contracting the tragic bout of cancer that took her so young on her path of musical exploration and child rearing. The creative collaborations with Charles Stepney have been called Chamber Jazz, PsychedeliJazz or Rhythm & Art Music. Regional drummer and boundary-less jazz free-form weekly radio host on KMHD taught many of us musically unschooled to appreciate the sublime and nuanced sounds of this undersund masterpiece COME TO MY GARDEN: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_to_My_Garden en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stepney Here in PoTown, Ore our local Mt Hood Community College Jazz Radio station that got incorporated into the state of Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) partnership had a Sunday night 7 PM - 10 PM free-form blend by musically boundary-less drummer about town Carlton Jackson. Carlton passed at 60 this past year and in honoring his kind influence on Pacific NW improvisational boundary-less music repeats of is free form weekly program THE MESSAGE have been played. Carlton taught us all a lot about ROTARY CONNECTION and the inner ear harmonics of arranger\composer\producer Charles Stepney. One of many aspects of Carlton Jackson's unassuming persona we can be thankful for as life in PoTown, Ore has descended into lockdown and quarantine and lack of humanity and normalization of homelessness and way less than the civilization that once made these neighborhoods and streets so much warmer bastions of humanity than the last 2-3 decades. Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media DiscUSsion List\Looksee

While I wouldn't call modern Jam bands or the Grateful Dead, jazz or jazzy the improvisational aesthetic and freer forms probably were influenced by jazz. Similarly, even American heavy metal with its ever present guitar solos probably owes something to jazz. One need not be blues based or bluesy to be affected by jazz aesthetics.

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Scott, it is a band of mine... now defunct : ( called Choir Fight from Milwaukee, Glad you dig it!