Dizzy Alumni All Stars

[CJ Shearn]

last night at Binghamton University: Slide Hampton, Cyrus Chestnut, Jim Rotondi a sax player I can't remember the name of (Labelle was the last name I think) John Lee and Dennis Mackrel. Damn did these guys smoke, Cyrus had a beautiful "My Funny Valentine" feature, and there was a funky burning "Manteca" as well, at the end of "Night in Tunisia" Rotondi did his best Mogie imitation, I actually shouted out "get mad!" Met Cyrus and Rotondi after the gig, Cyrus signed my Roy Hargrove CD, sweet cat, and Jim and I were talking about Freddie and Woody Shaw, the sax player said he had really wanted to work with Woody because "he was really the only one doing anything new" and he was tight with Carter Jefferson, but as we all know what happened to Wood, the sax player never got the chance. Also Rotondi and I were briefly discussing "Alexander the Great" from Eric Alexander, and he told me as a horn player, that RVG's is the best sounding room he ever played in.

[marcello]

Marketing in jazz is needed but.....

Outside of John Lee, what makes these other players Dizzy Alumni?

[AllenLowe]

I think they recently beat up a few women -

[CJ Shearn]

http://dizzygillespie.org/

well, could it be that even if some of the players were not directly involved with Diz, they could just be great musicians, thus they got call? I mean Randy Brecker, Claudio Roditi, Renee Rosnes, et al. are great players.

[AllenLowe]

could be Dizzy Dean that they're talking about - and I think one of those guys once got a letter from Dizzy Reece -

[CJ Shearn]

that humor is lost on me. sorry ^.^;;

[marcello]

http://dizzygillespie.org/

well, could it be that even if some of the players were not directly involved with Diz, they could just be great musicians, thus they got call?  I mean Randy Brecker, Claudio Roditi, Renee Rosnes, et al. are great players.

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Sure, but it's the Alumni tag that has me asking. They could just call it a Tribute band, but best of luck to them.

[robviti]

that humor is lost on me.  sorry ^.^;;

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...Cyrus signed my Roy Hargrove CD, sweet cat, ...

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well, it's not like you don't have any sense of humor.

[CJ Shearn]

thank you, JazzShrink. True Marcello, I guess it could be considered a tribute band all things considered.

[AllenLowe]

who's joking?