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Gillespie County, with the communities of Fredericksburg, Harper, Stonewall and Luckenbach, has a German-speaking population of 2, 270, 11. 51 % of the county's total population.
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As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.
On September 6, 1875, Kimble County was separated from Gillespie County and attached to Menard County for judicial purposes.
The southeastern portion of the county is part of the Harper Independent School District, which is headquartered in the Gillespie County community of Harper.
Spring Creek Cemetery near Harper in Gillespie County has a singular grave with the names Sebird Henderson, Hiram Nelson, Gus Tegener and Frank Scott.
: Spring Creek Cemetery near Harper in Gillespie County has a singular grave with the names Sebird Henderson, Hiram Nelson, Gus Tegener and Frank Scott.
In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis counties. While the signers were overwhelmingly German immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of non-German Anglo names.
Surveyor Jacob Kuechler is commissioned as a Captain by Sam Houston to enroll state militia troops in Gillespie County.
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What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.
In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.
Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.
Coltrane was little known at the time, in spite of earlier collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, and Johnny Hodges.
In his Essays on Music, selected, with introductions, commentary, and notes by Richard Leppert ; new translations by Susan H. Gillespie.
Mussolini's band toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker.
Ella Fitzgerald performing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown ( musician ) | Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Timmie Rosenkrantz in September 1947, New York
While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, " I just tried to do my voice what I heard the horns in the band doing.
The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings.
Basie's band was sharing Birdland with such bebop greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis.
From 1982 the Terrassa Jazz Festival is specially outstanding, with guests like Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie ...
Leonard Gillespie, Surgeon to the Fleet, wrote in 1804 that pneumonia was common with some cases becoming fatal carditis.
He met up with another schoolfriend who shared his outlook, Jim Beattie, and recorded " elemental noise tapes ", in which Gillespie would bang two dustbin lids together and Beattie played fuzz-guitar.
The band strongly disliked this, with Gillespie saying that " they can't play their instruments and they can't write songs.
The band toured throughout 1986, and Gillespie became disenchanted with the quality of their performances.
In an interview with NME, Gillespie said that the band had written " euphoric rock ' n ' roll songs " for their next album.
The DVD featured clips of the band's performance in London, as well as all their music videos and an interview with Gillespie and Mani.
The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of bebop and it brought Monk into close contact with other leading exponents of the emerging idiom, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.
His last studio recordings as a leader were made in November 1971 for the English Black Lion label, near the end of a worldwide tour with " The Giants of Jazz ," a group which included Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey.
* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding
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