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post #1 of 5
9/11/09 at 1:24am
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This is one of my favorite TV clips. Dizzy Gillespie's band with guest Louis Armstrong doing the novelty tune "Umbrella Man". This is their only recorded performance together IIRC.

While certainly not the best performance by each individually, together they are magic - Dizzy's being Dizzy and Satchmo is being Satchmo. I especially like their singing duet, with Diz taking the melody with Louis interjections ("Your parasol is juicy, boy!").

If that weren't enough, "The Great One" Jackie Gleason comes out to embrace them both at the end while Dizzy and Louis slap hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1uMjz3n3w
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post #2 of 5
9/11/09 at 2:16am
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This is one of my favorite TV clips. Dizzy Gillespie's band with guest Louis Armstrong doing the novelty tune "Umbrella Man". This is their only recorded performance together IIRC.

While certainly not the best performance by each individually, together they are magic - Dizzy's being Dizzy and Satchmo is being Satchmo. I especially like their singing duet, with Diz taking the melody with Louis interjections ("Your parasol is juicy, boy!").

If that weren't enough, "The Great One" Jackie Gleason comes out to embrace them both at the end while Dizzy and Louis slap hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1uMjz3n3w
They along with Duke sit a top America's music pyramid. Probaly even modern music period.
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post #3 of 5
9/11/09 at 2:37am
Great clip. From Gleason's variety show, I guess? Duke sits near the top of the sartorial pyramid too.
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post #4 of 5
9/11/09 at 2:39am
Epic, but it doesn't beat The Bird and Diz.
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post #5 of 5
9/11/09 at 10:24am
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Agreed, Conn. That's the clip from Earl Wilson's show where Bird seems to regard Wilson with thinly disguised contempt during the introduction. Wilson was a New York Post gossip columnist who signed his columns "That's Earl, Brother" and Dizzy wrote a tune with that title (possibly a double honorific for both Wilson and Earl Hines).

Brogued, the Diz-Pops clip was from a TV special, The Timex All-star Hour of which The Great One was the host. I note how great Gleason look in his suit, proof that you don't have to look like a male model to be stylish (recalling Paul Newman/"Fast Eddie Felson" talking about the elegance of Jackie Gleason/"Minnesota Fats" in The Hustler).

Jpierpont, Bing Crosby said it best when he stated that Louis was his major influence and referred to Armstrong as "the beginning and the end of music in America."
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