Music Lives 365: October 21

Is dere a more “wid it” song in American music?

But here’s where I first heard it: “You got to mow the lawn!”

Impossible the effect of Dizzy’s work upon his cheeks!

“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”.
— Dizzy Gillespie

Mr. Cropper’s hit with his first real band in Memphie

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin

In 1964 Dizzy Gillespie and Dudley Moore provided voice work for a small animated film called “The Hat.”

Dizzy’s voice in it has always slayed me. Embodying human greatness wisdom! I tried to copy it but could not. Please seek it out on You Tube . Magnificent.