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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l ɛ s p i / gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. [2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge [3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
Dizzy Gillespie – Strictly Be Bop (Capitol M 11059) Jazz at the Philharmonic – J.A.T.P. at Carnegie Hall 1949 (Pablo PACD 5311–2) Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 1503) Various Artists – 25 Years of Prestige (Prestige PR 24046) Miles Davis/Dizzy Gillespie/Fats Navarro – Trumpet Giants (New Jazz NJLP 8296)
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie is a 1979 book written by jazz musician, composer and band leader Dizzy Gillespie. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book was released in July 1979 by Doubleday . The University of Minnesota Press re-released the book in 2009.
2005 Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux: Presents Dizzy Gillespie Sextet '77 (Eagle Vision USA) 2005 Summer Jazz Live at New Jersey 1987 (FS World Jazz / Alpha Centauri Entertainment) 2005 A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba (New Video Group) (Filmed in 1985 with Arturo Sandoval and Sayyd Abdul Al Khabyyr) 2006 Jazz Icons: Live in '58 & '70 ...
Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Something Old, Something New is a studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, recorded and released in 1963. Reception.
He co-wrote some of Dizzy Gillespie's Latin-flavored compositions, such as "Manteca" and "Tin Tin Deo", and was the first Latin percussionist in Gillespie's band. According to Rebeca Mauleón , "Few percussionists have played as integral a role in shaping Latin music as Luciano 'Chano' Pozo González".
Free Ride is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie that was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin, recorded in 1977 and released on the Pablo label. [1] The album represents the first collaboration between the two since The New Continent in 1962.
After moving to New York City he performed regularly with his sextet at the Onyx Club starting in 1935, [1] and also with Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and later, Sun Ra. [1] After being signed to Vocalion Records in 1936, he had a hit with "I'se a Muggin '" and was billed as Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys.