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Language English Pages 552 pp. Originally published July 1979 Publisher Doubleday | 4.2/5 Goodreads Genre Music autobiographies ISBN 978-0385120524 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Similar Groovin' High, The Rolling stone jazz record gu, Beneath the Underdog, Music is My Mistress, Miles - the autobiography | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie is a 1979 book written by jazz musician, composer and band leader Dizzy Gillespie. The book was released in July 1979 by Doubleday. The University of Minnesota Press re-released the book in 2009.
Contents
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Background
He is known for being the father of bebop. This book tells about his life, and what he went through to make this music flourish. The book introduces Dizzy and his friends like Charlie "Bird" Parker as they struggled to make money by playing. Later on it tells of how Dizzy became a great trumpeter and even the origin of his signature bent trumpet.
Various compositions and albums have been named after Gillespie's book title.
References
To Be or Not to Bop Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA