Dizzy Gillespie: The Development of an American Artist*
Martin Williams · 1991
Abstract This album collects recordings done over a crucial five years by an American trumpeter and sometime composer-orchestrator. What emerges in the most unassuming of ways-and, for some of us, the most unexpected of places-is a pattern of musical discovery. Also, if you will, self-discovery. But the special self-discovery of an artist, hence of someone who makes discoveries for us all about our selves, our lives, and our possibilities.