To be, or not ... to BOP : memoirs / Dizzy Gillespie, with Al Fraser.
| Author/creator | Gillespie, Dizzy |
| Other author | Fraser, Al. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1979. |
| Description | xix, 552 pages, 28 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Chronology -- Preface -- Tan yo' hide -- School days -- Ice cream city -- Hard times -- Horns galore -- B-flat -- Laurinburg -- H.N.I.C. -- Becoming me -- Glory road -- Parlez-vous -- Lorraine -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- World's Fair -- The flatted fifth -- Klook-Mop -- Hot mallets (9-11-39) -- Diz the wiz -- Wholly matrimony -- Spitball -- Minton's playhouse -- Little John special -- Pickin' the cabbage -- Incubator -- No dancing -- The Onyx -- The Downbeat -- Hepsations '45 -- Three deuces -- California -- The Spotlite (the big band, 1946) -- Beboppers, the cult -- To heaven on a mule -- Cheeks -- Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban -- HIgh seas -- Groovin' high -- Godfather -- Headache -- Playin' it cool -- Dee Gee Records -- Machinations -- Bendin' the horn -- Bird and Diz -- School for jazz -- Changes -- World statesman -- Samba -- Higher than Ike -- Ancestry -- Striving -- Diz for president -- The cruel world -- Gettin' religion -- Dizziness -- Evolutions -- Honors -- Selected discography -- Filmography -- Honors and awards. |
| Genre/form | Bop (Music) |
| LCCN | 77076237 |
| ISBN | 0385120524 : |