Dizzy Gillespie
Published: 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Calligraphy; Specimens; Artists' books
Other titles: Improvising.
Notes: Calligraphic text from Dizzy Gillespie in ink on one side of the leaf only, and 3 leaves of embossed illustration.

16 loose sheets in decorated folder, laid within black boards; issued in case.

Signed and dated at end in pencil: Jean Evans, February 1991.

Text from Dizzy Gillespie: Improvising : comments in an interview with Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker, September 17, 1990 ; Some of the prerequisites for a successful jazz musician : from Dizzy's memoirs To Be or not to Bop.