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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 and CTI Records All-Stars. Released: 1990 () Genre: Jazz: Label: CTI: Rhythmstick is a 1990 album and video by Dizzy Gillespie and CTI Records All ...
1952–53: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 compilation album – includes all tracks on Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra and some tracks released on Dizzy at Home and Abroad ; 1952: Horn of Plenty (Blue Note 1952) 1953: Dizzy Digs Paris (Giant Steps) – includes all tracks on Dizzy Over Paris
Love All the Hurt Away (Arista, 1981) Get It Right (Arista, 1983) With Michael Franks. Skin Dive (Warner Bros., 1985) With Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy Gillespie Jam (Pablo, 1977) To Diz with Love (Telarc, 1992) As Music Director for the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars. Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party (Shanachie, 1997) Dizzy's World (Shanachie, 1999)
The AllMusic review stated "every selection on this excellent CD works" and awarded the album four stars. [2] The JazzTimes review stated "Though Dizzy's tone and technique had slipped a bit in his 72nd year, he could always summon the magic when he needed to...
For Musicians Only is a 1958 jazz album by Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Sonny Stitt incorporating bebop influences. Recorded in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 1956, it has been described as the "real thing, no pretense". Bob Levey, son of drummer Stan Levey, told an interviewer how his father described the session:
The Metronome All-Stars were a collection of jazz musicians assembled for studio recordings by Metronome Magazine, based on its readers' polls.The studio sessions were held in the years 1939–42, 1946–53, and 1956, and typically consisted of two tracks which allowed each participant a chance to solo for one chorus.
"Blue 'n' Boogie" is a 1944 jazz standard.It was written by Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli. [1] It can be found on Gillespie's 1955 compilation album Groovin' High, and was notably performed by trumpeter Miles Davis on Miles Davis All-Star Sextet (1954; later released as the first side of Walkin'), guitarist Wes Montgomery on Full House (1962), and Sonny Rollins on Now's the Time (1964).