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How bad can it be?
Dizzy Gillespie on "The Muppet Show" Performing, "St. Louis Blues" with The Electric Mayhem, in a very groovy way.
This excerpt is from "The Muppet Show", season 4 episode 85. Aired: February 28, 1980.
Enjoy
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Dizzy played for Lucky Millinder's band in the early '40s. It was a riff this band played, after a Dizzy solo in the tune "Little John Special", that Dizzy developed into his tune "Salt Peanuts".
who are the sidemen here?
Is that Max Roach on drums, TheApeLad?
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Dizzy Gillespie as a guest with UMO in Finland in 1982 playing "Manteca". Solos by Dizzy and Arturo Sandoval (trumpet), Juhani Aaltonen (flute), Eero Koivistoinen (tenor sax) and percussionists Bernardo García Carreras, Reynaldo Valera del Monte and Esko Rosnell on drums.
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Dizzy Gillespie at Newport 1957: Night in Tunisia
Personnel : Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Ermit Perry, Carl Warwick, Talib Daawud, Melba Liston, Al Grey, ERnie Henry, Jimmy Powell, Billy Mitchell, Benny Golson, Pee Wee Moore, Wynton Kelly, Paul West, Charlie Persip
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Dizzy Gillespie as a guest with Umo in Finland in 1982 playing "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk. Solos by Dizzy on trumpet, Juhani Aaltonen on alto sax and Juhani Aalto on trombone.