Big Ears puts its 2027 lineup on the clock day by day, four days in Knoxville with the Brad Mehldau Trio on Thursday and seventy four billings on Friday, and single day passes already priced. Then a Blue Note session cut in Hackensack on this date in 1956, five rooms from Los Angeles to New York on Dizzy Gillespie's birthday, and the London producer who sampled Blue Note without permission. | The Lead: Big Ears publishes its 2027 daily lineup eight days early, four days in Knoxville from April first to the fourth with thirty four billings on Thursday, seventy four on Friday, sixty four on Saturday and thirty four on Sunday, one separately ticketed show a night, and single day passes from a hundred thirty five dollars to two hundred twenty five. Listen to This: The French national library holds two records of one Blue Note afternoon at the Van Gelder recording studio in Hackensack on October 21, 1956, with J. R. Monterose, Ira Sullivan, Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones, and the two editions disagree on the timings and on the leader's own name. The Bridge: A London producer samples a Blue Note record without permission, gets called into a meeting at the label's parent company, and Silas tells how what he pitched there led to a record Blue Note's president called the label's first platinum disc. On the Road: Five rooms tonight, from Dizzy's Club in New York throwing Dizzy Gillespie a birthday with Jon Faddis and a sold out early set, to four Birdland sets in two rooms, by way of Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. One More Note: Dizzy Gillespie was born on this date in 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina, and he shares the day with Don Byas, born October 21, 1912, whom the French national library files as a member of the Dizzy Gillespie septet. | The Daily Quintet is an AI-crafted production, researched and checked by humans. Every listing you hear came from the venue or the festival's own organizer.
