A Night Out in Singapore with the Dizzy Gillespie Band

The Dizzy Gillespie Band in Singapore (Photo by Author)

It is Friday night and I went to see The Dizzy Gillespie Band in Singapore. I am the only real jazz fan in my family, so after work, my wife prepared me a nice dinner, and then I took the subway downtown to the Singapore Chinese Orchestra auditorium.

I saw Gillespie play in Montreal in the late 80s. He played a tiny, but packed reggae club called The Rising Sun 🌄. I…