Profile: Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia"

From: Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR) | Date: September 3, 2000| Author: STEVE INSKEEP | Copyright information


NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday

09-03-2000

Profile: Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia"

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Now F. Scott Fitzgerald gave a name to the jazz age. In the book "Trimalchio," Fitzgerald wrote of jazz, `I know so little of music, I can only make a story of it.' Dizzy Gillespie never had that problem. Nearly 60 years ago, the young Dizzy Gillespie wrote a song that still today is one...

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