FESTIVAL: The Great American Jazz Event Hits Five-0
July 31st, 2007
Fifty years ago, Dizzy Gillespie blew "Star Spangled Banner" on his bent trumpet to herald the birth of the Monterey Jazz Festival.
No one ever had seen or heard an all-star lineup like this:
Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Ernestine Anderson, Gerry Mulligan with Art Farmer, Benny Carter, Harry James, Max Roach, Shelly Manne, Dave Brubeck, and the Modern Jazz Quartet...