Danilo Perez: Things to Come - 21st Century Dizzy May 21, 2010

21st Century Dizzy is Danilo Perez's global all-star band, celebrating the music and bountiful inspiration of his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie. As the youngest member of the last edition of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra, Perez learned first hand how Gillespie embraced musical and personal collaborations throughout the world. Perez has assembled a new band to perform new arrangements of classic Gillespie tunes in addition to original group compositions. Dizzy's bands were a constant melting pot of styles, genres, and pan-global collaborations. Perez's hand-picked all-stars, with roots in Afro-Cuban, be-bop, Indian, African, and Middle Eastern genres, will honour Dizzy's legendary vision.