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...American theater, painting, literature to the rest of the world. Late, but far from least, in the parade are U.S. musicians. A random look at the travel notes last week showed U.S. jazz in London, a fine U.S. symphony in Latin America, a top U.S. violinist in Russia, U.S. "bop" in the Middle East...
...Istanbul, Top Bop Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie and his 16-piece band took crowds of Turks through a rapid history of jazz, then fed them a solid portion in the progressive style that left the audiences yelling with excitement. It was stop No. 9 in the troupe's seven-country tour as the State Department's first official jazz ambassadors, taking in many places that had never heard live American jazz, and some that had not even heard about...
...difference between bop and Dixieland musicians, Jazzman Eddie Condon once cracked, is that bop men flat their fifths, whereas Dixielanders drink theirs...
...soon stretched her natural talent to songs in seven languages (plus bop talk) and music on seven instruments (piano, accordion, vibraphone, guitar, bass, ukulele, clarinet...
Meanwhile, three years ago, Lillian managed to form her own all-girl orchestra, played clubs around Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Occasionally she would put on a "bop hat" and long plaid jacket with huge key chain and hoarsely sing her own lyrics to songs. "Sing! What am I saying?" she laughs now. "But it was the only singing I ever did until just lately...