Dizzy Gillespie and the be-bop revolution

by Raymond Horricks

Book by Horricks, Raymond

Genres: Biography, Music

95 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Raymond Horricks is a biographer, writer, and independent record producer.

Reviews

[Jeff Crompton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Horricks packs a lot into this little book, which is part of the Jazz Masters series issued in the UK in the early 1980s. He does a good job of summarizing Gillespie's contributions to jazz and placing them in historical context. If I have a quibble, it's that Horricks makes too much of bebop (the modern jazz style Gillespie helped introduce) being revolutionary. I see it more as an evolutionary step, not the drastic break from the past the Horricks describes.

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of a series of short reads called "jazz masters"
A broad yet concise general overview of each artist in the series and their discography.

[Leonardo Rodríguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Librito curioso sobre un musicazo. A Horricks le interesa casi tanto la política como el jazz. Más que un músico imaginario, es un ideólogo musical.