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Dizzy Profile

from May Be Blue by Doug Hammond Trio/Quartet

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Trio 2016 (studio live)
Mirko Cisilino: trumpet
Nikola Matošić: bass
Doug Hammond: drums/voice

When I was playing in Mingus’s Jazz Workshop band we performed this beautiful, sensitive ballad only about two or three times. It was a pleasing break from so much intense playing at times. But it also went into high gear and I believe this is why Mingus didn’t call it again. He was not so keen on having to say much while on the bandstand. However, I learned from him that when a song was not going well from the beginning, he would just stop the band and start over
or go to another piece. I thought this was for Dizzy Gillespie instead of Dizzy Reese. Inspiration came easy for the lyrics. I recall seeing a news clip where, after Dizzy had played, the commentator asked him, “What was that music you played?” He answered correctly, “That was ‘Bebop,’” the song title. Where in my lyrics is stated: “Turn around its meaning then” because many called the music Bebop. It is a good description, but could never cover the vast, unlimited ground this music has and will cover.

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Lyrics by Doug Hammond Jodgoa Publishing Corp. ASCAP

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from May Be Blue, released May 1, 2017
Composed by Charles Mingus/ Jazz Workshop Publishing BMI

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Doug Hammond Harper Woods, Michigan

Doug Hammond is a drummer, singer, composer, producer, and coordinator. Best know as a composer for "Moves"on Charles Mingus LP,
MINGUS MOVES 1974; for the Doug Hammond Trio featuring Steve Coleman and Muneer B. Fennell 1980-82 on ground breaking LP "Spaces", D.H. Trio with Dwight Adams and Pablo Nahar LP Singing Smiles 2005; and Doug Hammond Tentet "ROSE"2011.
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