{"title":"Dizzy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDizzy, an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer, was known as \"the sound of surprise\". He played a pivotal role in the development of bebop and influenced numerous musicians. Dizzy also contributed to Afro-Cuban jazz by incorporating complex poly-rhythms and adding conga to his orchestra. Throughout his career, he received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCareer highlights include being awarded the New Star Award from Esquire Magazine in 1944 and performing at the first integrated concert in public school in Cheraw, SC in 1959. In 1972, Dizzy became the first jazz musician appointed by the US Department of State for a cultural mission. He received several prestigious awards such as the Handel Medallion from the City of New York and the Paul Robeson Award from Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNotable performances include playing at the White House for President Carter and the Shah of Iran in 1977 and performing \"Salt Peanuts\" with President Carter at a White House Jazz Concert in 1978. Dizzy was also recognized with inductions into both the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. His lifetime achievements were acknowledged through various accolades including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors Award, National Medal of Arts from President Bush, Duke Ellington Award from ASCAP (the society of Composers Authors and Publishers), as well as\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-sun-and-her-scorch","title":"The Sun and Her Scorch","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn their 2018 debut album \u003ci\u003eBaby Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, Dizzy offered up a batch of lucidly detailed coming-of-age songs, a real-time reflection on the minor tragedies and major disappointments of post-adolescence. As their dream-pop opus drew global acclaim (and won Best Alternative Album at the 2019 Juno Awards), the Oshawa, Ontario-based band found that their finely wrought outpouring had built a powerful bond with their fans—a contingent that frontwoman Katie Munshaw refers to as “our little heartbreak club.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoined by the trio of brothers who make up the rest of Dizzy—drummer Charlie Spencer and his siblings Alex (guitar) and Mackenzie (bass)—Munshaw soon set to work on new music that explores an even more tangled landscape of feelings. Dizzy instill their songs with a warm and open-hearted sincerity, an extension of the gentle camaraderie within the band itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun and Her Scorch\u003c\/i\u003e was produced by Dizzy and mixed by Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Florence + The Machine.) The album is a candid exploration of the messiest, most raw emotions young people experience in 2020, laden with confessions of insecurity, resentment and fear of failure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBaby Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e was all about the confusion and sadness of my late teens, but this one is more about the qualities of myself that I’m not very proud of,” Katie says. “I wanted to be completely honest about the things nobody ever wants to admit, like being jealous of your friends or pushing away the people who love you. So instead of being about romantic heartbreak, it’s really about self-heartbreak.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s deeply personal lyrics are infinitely brightened by Dizzy’s buoyant melodies, with brothers Alex (guitar), Mackenzie (bass) and Charlie Spencer (drums) creating an eternally sunny indie pop sound to compliment Katie’s blissful vocals. 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The band worked on the record with Grammy nominated producer Damian Taylor (Bjork, Braids, Arcade Fire) at Golden Ratio Studios in Montreal. In the suburbs, life moves at a slower pace; routine is valued and gossip fuels the local news. Dizzy are a band from Oshawa, Ontario who make music to combat the anxieties of this provincial ennui. Like most small-town millennials, the members went to high school basement parties, fell in love, and felt insecure. Unlike most of their peers, though, Dizzy ditched the routine high school to college to 9 to 5 trajectory to create story-songs out of their coming of age. An eloquent lyricist who grew up inspired by music ranging from alternative (Alvvays, Bright Eyes) to the storytelling qualities of country pop (Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks), Munshaw explains \u003ci\u003eBaby Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is “mostly about my late teen years and the time since. Making music always stemmed from my being overly sensitive about everything. When you’re that close to so many people, you’re bound to meet the characters that screw you up enough to start writing about them. Oshawa introduced me to friendship and heartache and change while keeping me bored enough to sit at home and write about it.” For the Spencer brothers, making music seemed fated—thanks in large part to parents who put instruments in their hands as far back as they can remember. “They always encouraged us to learn the way we wanted to, whether that was by taking lessons or just learning songs we liked by listening to them,” Charlie recalls. Suburban boredom was another driving force behind their interest in music, and once they found a kindred spirit in Munshaw, the band began to take shape. On \u003ci\u003eBaby Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, Munshaw uses the lessons she’s learned from her coming of age to remind us that “sometimes all you can do is flip onto your back, catch your breath, and float for a bit.” An auspicious and fully realised debut, \u003ci\u003eBaby Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e marks the exciting arrival of a bright young Canadian band whose career is just beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Standard Mint Pack and Poster Fold Booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Standard Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Communion","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50462225727819,"sku":"1042314","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ada70fa5-75bd-45d4-b27d-4bddee0b4a44_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727255839"},{"product_id":"dizzy","title":"Dizzy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatie Munshaw\u003c\/strong\u003e really needed to finish the quilt, and find a way to sew herself into it. The lead singer of Ontario four-piece \u003cstrong\u003eDizzy\u003c\/strong\u003e has been thinking a lot about the way things look and the way you can find comfort in disappearing into it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe describes the album, a bright indie-pop beast continuing the legacy built from two previous shimmering records, as a patchwork quilt with each song a square, or a sliver, of her life. \"\u003cem\u003eNone of them have all that much to do with each other and yet they wouldn't exist without one another\u003c\/em\u003e,\" she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes for a colorful record that's intrinsically Dizzy - one that swerves comparison, instead reflecting the shapeshifting and imperfect nature of its musicians. Avoiding the spotlight yet more confidently themselves than ever. Munshaw is satisfied with where this record finds Dizzy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band's first record, she says, was \"\u003cem\u003eformative\u003c\/em\u003e\" to what kind of musician she became, even though \"\u003cem\u003eI was young and had no business making a record\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \"\u003cem\u003eThe Sun and Her Scorch\u003c\/em\u003e\" was our rebellious teenage phase where we thought we could do it all ourselves, this new chapter is about throwing our hands up saying 'we don't have all the answers. I'm open to having somebody help me. 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