Dizzy Gillespie Quote

The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of different rhythms to the note and with just that one note everybody is clapping their hands and dancing and shouting.


Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle [September 30, 1958]


The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of...

The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of...

The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of...

The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of...