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The Augusta News-Review - November 4, 1976 -
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The Changes
DIZZY GILLESPIE:
A Bop Pioneer Revisited
After receiving three
requests to write an article on
trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie
within one week, I feel that
those who requested the article
couldn’t have made a better
choice however, I explained to
one of my readers that I had
mentioned Dizzy in several of
my articles and in fact had
written about Diz bit by bit in
about five articles. He
explained that many of my
readers were looking forward
to an article EXCLUSIVELY
on Dizzy Gillespie... 50...
today lets look at that great
trumpeter.
Dizzy Gillespie was bom
John Wilkes Gillespie in
Cheraw, South Carolina on
October 21, 1917. His first
formal musical study was at
age 14 on trombone while
attending Laurinburg Institute,
which was a Black industrial
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school in North Carolina. He
was attending on a scholarship
and within a year he switched
to trumpet
In 1935, the Gillespies
moved to Philadelphia, where
Dizzy’s love of clowning
earned him his nickname. He
played with a local band led by
Frank Fairfax which included
Charlie Shavers. Diz’s favorite
musician was trumpeter Roy
Eldridge. Roy Eldridge was
featured with Teddy Hill’s
band and the band broadcasted
nightly from Harlem’s Savoy
Ballroom.
Dizzy copied Eldridge so
much and practiced so hard
that even to his own disbelief
when Eldridge left Hill to join
Fletcher Henderson, Diz took
over his chair. With Hill in
Europe and in the states,
Dizzy’s on-stage and off-stage
antics rarely belied his
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nickname. His fellow musicians
said that he was as “Dizzy as a
Fox”.
While with Hill Diz started
to experiment with new ideas
and as new musicians came
into the band they became
very interested in what he was
doing but little did they realize
that he was, in fact, creating a
new style of music.
Late in 1939, Diz joined Cab
Calloway’s band. His
already-evolving style provoked
sharp pro and con reaction
within the band. Drummer
Cozy Cole and bassist Milt
Hinton liked what Diz was
doing but fat-toned tenor
saxist Chu Berry belittled Diz’s
tone and Cab called Diz’s solos
“Chinese music”.
One night after Diz had been
with the band for two years,
someone threw a spitball onto
the stage of the Hartford State
Theatre. Knowing Diz’s
capabilities for such horseplay,
Cab blamed him for it.
Backstage after the curtain,
Cab and Diz scuffled. Diz
pulled a knife, cut Cab and was
fired.
After that Diz worked
briefly with many groups to
include Ella Fitzgerald and
Benny Carter. In 1944 when
Billy Eckstine formed a band
of his own (he was formerly
with Earl Hines band in which
Diz also played) he hired Diz as
its musical director. Diz and
Tadd Dameron wrote many of
the arrangements, however the
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Mini Theatre Announces Schedule
The Augusta Mini Theatre,
Inc., a non-profit theatrical
organization is announcing its
schedule for the 1976-77
season.
The season opener features
the Mini Theatre Dancers,
November 8,9, in “Cowboys
n’ Giris” Dance/Variety
band was short lived and broke
up in 1947.
Diz wanted to be different.
His style of dress became a
craze as admirers and imitators
donned Dizzy-ish berets and
heavy homed-rimmed passes
and (depending on the wearer’s
gender) goatees.
Diz cut a batch of records
with Bird (Charlie Parker) in
1945. He also formed a combo
with Bird and took it to the
west coast where it met
hostility. Bird suffered a
nervous breakdown and was
out of action for six months,
so the combo broke up.
Diz formed a big band which
too was unsuccessful due to his
new style which no one
understood. It was around
1950 when Diz finally gained
attention and once gained, the
focus has been on him from
that time until the present.
Diz also designed a trumpet
in which the bell extended out
about 45 degrees from the
shank. It is still used by many
Dizzy-admiring trumpeters
today. Dizzy Gillespie, a
musician with too many talents
to forget and even as famous as
he is, in reality he is yet truly
undiscovered..
"Legislative
Evening”
Planned By
League
The League of Women
Voteis invites the public to
meet with the members of the
Richmond County delegation
to the state legislature, and also
with members of City Council
and the County Commission,
on the evening of November 12
at the Bon Air Hotel
From 8 to 9 pun. there will
be an opportunity for informal
conversation, and starting at 9
p.m. there will be statements
from the officeholdeis about
their plans and concerns.
Everyone will be welcomed
to the “Legislative Evening”,
according to League president
Carol Lapp.
Paine
Dramatic Club
To Perform
The Paine College Dramatic
Club will present Charles
Gordone’s “No Place To Be
Somebody”, on November
11th, 12th, and 13th, in The
Odeum of The Gilbert
-Lambuth Memorial at 8:15
p.m.
The play presents the plight
of a Black bar owner who tries
to make it big by outwitting
Charley and the Mafia.
The public is invited to
attend the performance which
tells racial truths in thunder
and laughter.
Workshop On
Housing
Scheduled
Augusta Welfare Rights
Organization will sponsor a
workshop on Housing
Saturday, Nov. 6, at Mt.
Vemon Baptist Church, 2005
Ist Ave. at 11 a.m. to 3 pan.
For further information, call
722-6473.
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production; a play entitled
“Christinas Miser”, December
18, 19; African Dance/Variety
production, March 9, 10;
Fashion show, April 4; Drama
production, April 23, 24; and
Honors’ night, June 22.
Each program will begin at 8
p.m. at Tubman Jr. High
School Auditorium, 1740
Walton Way.
Most of the action in
“Cowboys n’ Giris” will be in
dance form. Tyrone “T-Bone”
Butler, the Theatre’s director,
will dance the part of Luke.
The dancers are Alton
Williams, Valerie Wiggins,
Bobby McCarter, Denise
Adams, Albert Johnson, Patty
Carter, Margaret Adams,
Ronald Ramsey, Denise
Bennett, Daphne Brooks,
Yvette Hammond, Vickie
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DR. VERA B. THURMOND
Paine Professor’s Article
To Appear
Dr. Vera B. Thurmond,
Assistant Professor and
Director of Reading Programs
Paine College, has been
notified that her article, “A
Black Dialect, High School
Students, and A Reading
Comprehension Test”, will
appear in The Journal of
Educational Research.
Through her study, Dr.
Thurmond attempted to
measure the effect of Black
dialect on the reading test
performance of Black and
white high school students.
Forty-six low achieving ninth
grade students were
administered a standard
English form and a Black
dialect form of the reading
subtest of the Sanford
Diagnostic Reading Test, Level
11. The dialectal form was
written so that the written
language of the test
approximated the exact oral
sentence pattern of the Black
students taking the test.
The results of Dr.
Thurmond’s study showed that
Black students who were
administered the Black dialect
form achieved significantly
better than Black students who
were administered the standard
English form of the test. White
.students did significantly
better than Black students on
the standard English form of
the test.
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Fuller, Sharon Paschal,
Elizabeth Jones, Pamela Jones,
Rosa Riles, Litischua Downs,
Wanda Wiggins, and Michele
Utley, assistant dance
coordinator.
Others appearing on the
show will be Cordelia Walton, a
gymnast; poets Roberta
Dunbar and Judy Simon;
songstress Theresa Walton;
guitarist/singer Patricia Carter,
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity from
Augusta College and others.
Special guests are Westside
High School Stage Band and
TCLS Singers of Lucy Laney
High School, November 9th
only.
Tickets may be purchased at
1143 Druid Park Ave. or from
any Mini Theatre participants.
For more information, call
736-7822.
In Journal
Dr. Thurmond received her
B.A. degree in English from
Clark College in Atlanta and an
Ed.D. in Reading Education
from the University of Georgia.
She has taught remedial
reading on the high school level
and currently teaches
undergraduate methods courses
and developmental and
corrective reading to freshmen
at Paine.
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Seated left to right: Norm Roberts, 7-11 Personnel Manager; Ivan James,
President SCLC Kansas City Chapter; Ken Bishop, 7-11 Zone Manager; Tyrone
Brooks, National Communication Director, SCLC (National Headquarters). Standing
left to right: Rich Houcek of 7-11; Charles Becker, of 7-11; and Rev. Emanuel
Cleaver, SCLC National Board member.
SCLC Signs Historic Covenant
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and the
7-11 Food Stores (A Division
of The Southland Corporation)
have just recently entered into
a joint covenant agreement
that will increase the number
of Blacks in The National
Corporation throughout the
greater Kansas City Area.
In the words of Tyrone
Brooks, National
Communications Director of
SCLC, “SCLC is proud of this
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Sixth Annual
Georgia Association Os
Elementary School
Principals Scheduled
The Georgia Association of
Elementary School Principals
(GAESP) will convene for its
sixth Annual Conference at the
Executive House on November
10-12, at the Executive House.
The State Annual
Conference Committee and the
Local Planning Committee
expect it to be the best ever.
The theme for the
Conference is “Effectiveness
Through Singularity of
Effort”.
Earl H. Thurmond Sr.,
principal of C.T. Walker
School, Conference chairman,
and president-elect of the State
Organization, stated that an
enrichning, well-planned
Srogram will be presented,
lany outstanding participants
will appear on the program.
The conference will have as
its keynote speaker Dudley E.
Flood, asst. state
superintendent for Human
Relations and Student Affair
for the North Carolina
Department of Public
Instruction.
The local planning
committee consists of Earl. H.
Thurmond, James Dunn, Peter
Paige, Ramona Strother,
Harold Johnston, Flonita
Lawrence, Jerry Walters, Harry
Hamm, Mike Jones, Fred Neal,
W.E. Croft, Audrey Bryant,
James Starks, Robert Walls,
Henry Brigham, Guyton
Thompson, Baxton Garland,
Robert Bush, Dorothy Rainey,
Franklin Boulineau, Jason
Jarrard and Winnette Bradley.
An executive dinner will
With 7-11 Food Stores
agreement and will continue to
work so that this covenant will
be implemented to the fullest
extent Hopefully in the very
Class Os 67 To Meet
The Lucy Laney Class of
1967 will meet Saturday, Nov.
6 at 5 pun.
The class will meet every
first and third Saturday of the
EARL H. THURMOND SR.
begin the conference
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Registration will be held from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Red Cross
Offers Courses
The Augusta Red Cross is
offering 3 courses during the
month of November in
Cardio-Pulmonary
Resuscitation, known also as
CPR.
The classes will be held at
the Red Cross office, 811
Twelfth St., and will consist of
two evening sessions, 6:31) to
10:30 p.m., for a total of 8
hours. The dates are:
November 3 and 5; November
10 and 12; November 17 and
19.
RED CROSS OFFERS MULTI
MEDIA FIRST AID
Individuals interested in an 8
hour Multi Media First Aid
course at the Augusta Red
Cross may sign up for one of 3
classes to be offered during the
month of November.
Each course will consist of
training on 2 evenings from
6:30 until 10:30 at the Red
Cross office, 811 Twelfth St
Dates are November 9 and 11,
November 16 and 18, and
November 22 and 23.
Those interested in more
information and registration
should call the Red Cross at
722-1821.
near future both parties can
mutually agree to a National
Covenant similiar to the one
signed in Kansas City
month at 5 pan. in the Music
Building.
Pat Scott is secretary and
Havard L. Chester is president