Research Catalog

Title

To be, or not ... to BOP : memoirs / Dizzy Gillespie, with Al Fraser.

Author

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1979.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Fraser, Al
• Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xix, 552 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Bop (Music)
• Biographies
• Bebop (Musique)

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Discography: p. [503]-523.
• Filmography: p. [525]-526.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chronology -- Preface -- Tan yo' hide -- School days -- Ice cream city -- Hard times -- Horns galore -- B-flat -- Laurinburg -- H.N.I.C. -- Becoming me -- Glory road -- Parlez-vous -- Lorraine -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- World's Fair -- The flatted fifth -- Klook-Mop -- Hot mallets (9-11-39) -- Diz the wiz -- Wholly matrimony -- Spitball -- Minton's playhouse -- Little John special -- Pickin' the cabbage -- Incubator -- No dancing -- The Onyx -- The Downbeat -- Hepsations '45 -- Three deuces -- California -- The Spotlite (the big band, 1946) -- Beboppers, the cult -- To heaven on a mule -- Cheeks -- Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban -- HIgh seas -- Groovin' high -- Godfather -- Headache -- Playin' it cool -- Dee Gee Records -- Machinations -- Bendin' the horn -- Bird and Diz -- School for jazz -- Changes -- World statesman -- Samba -- Higher than Ike -- Ancestry -- Striving -- Diz for president -- The cruel world -- Gettin' religion -- Dizziness -- Evolutions -- Honors -- Selected discography -- Filmography -- Honors and awards -- Index.

ISBN

0385120524 :

LCCN

^^^77076237^/MN

OCLC

• 5235037
• SCSB-9879920

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library