Featuring T.S. Galloway's Tribute to Captain Walter Dyett
2008 Chicago Jazz Festival (Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park)
in Chicago on August 29, 2008
Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Richard Davis, Wilbur Ware, and many others were products of the band at Chicago's Du Sable High School, led for thirty years by the legendary Captain Walter S. Dyett.
To honor Dyett the Festival commissioned one of his alums, T.S. Galloway, a veteran of the Basie band, to write a piece in tribute to him.
Three other Dyett-Du Sable alumni, Mwata Bowden, Edwin Daugherty, and featured soloist Julian Priester, were among the members of the band that played Galloway's very enjoyable four movement tribute.
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