Inktober day 24

Dizzy Gillespie is in the top two when it comes to jazz trumpeters, so after a few seconds of consideration I made this piece - white on black - one of the techniques that work most splendidly in digital drawing. Analog white colours are almost always a bit transparent, and never really get completely white. I have made quite a few works in lithography where i painted with gum arabic and then rolled the colour on the stone. That way you get a perfect white the places you painted - just like in digital painting. You can even make little adjustments afterwards by polishing or painting on the dry stone, but as I haven't got a Bavarian limes stone and a press in my apartment it is easier to simply make this magic trick on the screen.

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Today's words is: "Dizzy."

DIZZY!

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the driving forces behind the jazz style called bebop, and together with musicians like Charlie Parker, Bud Powel and Max Roach he revolutionised music in the years under and after WWII. Fast, complex music without the sweetness of the swing era, but with a wild and harsh energy that fitted the haunted times of the post war world better.

Here is, from one of my favourite records, the composition, A night in Tunesia by Gillespie himself. It is a live recording from the Birdland club in New York, March 31, 1951.

I also found this video recording where you can see both his unorthodox trumpet, and his unorthodox way of blowing the trumpet. Normally you should keep the air in the lungs for best result, but as Dizzy was unschooled he instead used the neck and cheeks as air reservoir, a technique that is not recommended but got him through a long career anyways.
The recording is some kind of latin-jazz played with a large bigband and it is from 1970.

the 2019 list. From the Inktober website.

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