Randa Abdel-Fattah
speaker
3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the 1940s, Gillespie, with his signature puffed-out cheeks, helped forge a new jazz era.
Edgier, faster, complex rhythms called bebop.
The State Department enlisted Gillespie and others as Cold War jazz ambassadors to win hearts and minds abroad, even as they faced racism at home.
In 1955, after Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald played to an integrated audience in Houston, they were arrested on trumped-up charges of gambling.
Klingenberg says the photos of them in jail are incredible.
Dizzy's kind of hanging out, being dizzy.
You see Ella Fitzgerald in the most beautiful, elegant gown.
Like, she's not meant to be there in the lockup.
Why is she there?
Despite such pressures, on stage, Gillespie was charming, playful, funny.
That sense of fun came through when, in 1953, his trumpet first got bent.
Accidents happen on stage, and it fell.
He picked it up to play and decided he liked the strange new sound, so he had his trumpets custom-made that way.
As testament to his nearly six-decade career, Klingenberg first saw Gillespie as a child watching Sesame Street.
He was that warm kind of jazz grandpa.
A circle of kids bop and sway, entranced by the gray-haired man with a funny-looking trumpet.
Jennifer Ludden, NPR News.
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