A Dizzying Rise to the Bop From: The Washington Post | Date: August 5, 1999| Author: | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

GROOVIN' HIGH

The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

By Alyn Shipton

Oxford. 422 pp. $30

Taking its title from one of the anthems of the 1940s-born jazz style known as bebop, "Groovin' High" is British writer Alyn Shipton's biography of Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet virtuoso and co- inventor of this still new-sounding musical form. Shipton marshals fresh data that give nuance, and sometimes the lie, to the received knowledge of bebop, particularly the contributions of Gillespie.

Where did bop, with its zigzag melodic lines, acidic harmonies and edgy rhythms, come from? From luminous moments of revelation by ...

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