The Houston Chronicle’s Andrew Dansby interviewed jazz trumpter Dave Douglas about his concert Friday night saluting trumpet legendy Dizzy Gillespie.
“People ask me why I’m doing a Dizzy Gillespie project. I say, “How could it have taken me this long to do a Dizzy Gillespie project?”…Dizzy was such an interesting person…None of the projects I’ve done have been full-on re-creations of what they did. It’s more about figuring out why this music is so important to me now in 2019. Finding the things that are so captivating.”