Swing Low Sweet Cadilac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByeuxGCJ-4

Oh yeah...

Animal FTW

Nice work from Dizzy, too.

The purple guy with the beard and the turban on Dizzy's right looks just like one of my college roommates. Minus the purpleness, of course.

I really, really like it here.

Wow, those are some big cheeks on Dizzy!

It is amazing to me how much his face/neck expands and contracts.

I believe he actually ended up with nerve damage from that. Horn players are not supposed to let their cheeks inflate, certainly not that much.

Here's one for percussionists - w/Buddy Rich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zNANjJNio

Enjoy!

Duke wrote: I believe he actually ended up with nerve damage from that. Horn players are not supposed to let their cheeks inflate, certainly not that much.

I believe the word you're looking for is embouchure

bludroptop wrote: Oh yeah...

Yep, Animal at the end pretty much summed that clip up.

Dizzy was one of the coolest motherberkeleyers to walk the Earth. A legend through and through. That is a great clip that I'd long forgotten about. Just fantastic.

BTW--the state of his cheeks was actually named as a medical condition--"Gillespie Pouches". No joke. His improper technique made it to the medical journals.

oldsaw wrote: Here's one for percussionists - w/Buddy Rich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zNANjJNio Enjoy!

Wow! He's gotta be 60 there, and a total badass.

I had forgotten how funny and how adult the muppet show was... spent hours looking at old episodes on Youtube. Loved the John Cleese one