To Be or Not to Bop
{{Short description|1979 book by Dizzy Gillespie}}
{{Infobox book |
| name = To Be, or Not to Bop
| image = To Be or Not to Bop - book cover.JPG
| caption = Softcover edition
| authors = Dizzy Gillespie
Al Fraser
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Music autobiographies
| published = July 1979
| publisher = Doubleday
| media_type = Print (hardback and paperback)
| pages = 552 pp.
| isbn = 978-0385120524
}}
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie is a 1979 book written by jazz musician, composer and band leader Dizzy Gillespie.{{cite web|last1=YOHN|first1=LINDA|title=Dizzy Gillespie: To Be Or Not To Bop|url=http://wemu.org/post/dizzy-gillespie-be-or-not-bop#stream/0|publisher=wemu.org|accessdate=30 May 2016|date=21 April 2015}}{{cite web|title=To Be, or Not . . . to Bop|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/to-be-or-not-to-bop|website=The University of Minnesota Press|publisher=upress.umn.edu|accessdate=30 May 2016}} The book was released in July 1979 by Doubleday. The University of Minnesota Press re-released the book in 2009.
Background
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He is known for being the father of bebop. This book tells about his life, and what he went through to make this music flourish. The book introduces Dizzy and his friends like Charlie "Bird" Parker as they struggled to make money by playing. Later on it tells of how Dizzy became a great trumpeter and even the origin of his signature bent trumpet.
Various compositions and albums have been named after Gillespie's book title.
See also
;Biographies of other famous trumpeters:
References
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=tVGfAAAAMAAJ Google book profile]
{{Dizzy Gillespie}}