Dizzy Gillespie Watrous describes his performance style: Wynton Marsalis summed up Gillespie as a player and teacher: Gillespie's trademark trumpet featured a bell which bent upward at a 45-degree angle rather than pointing straight ahead as in the conventional design. According to Gillespie's autobiography, this was originally the result of accidental damage caused by the dancers Stump and Stumpy falling onto the instrument while it was on a trumpet stand on stage at Snookie's in Manhattan on January 6, 1953, during a birthday party for Gillespie's wife Lorraine. The constriction caused by the bending altered the tone of the instrument, and Gillespie
Jazz Review holding company, which changed ownership, absorbed "Jazz Review" around April 2009. It was revived as "Jazz Journal" at the end of April. Direct Music was no longer involved in the publication. A later California-based magazine also titled "The Jazz Review", edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991-1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and other artists. Jazz Review Jazz Review was a Scottish jazz magazine, founded in 1998 by a former editor of "The Wire" and jazz writer Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh,