1917-10-21 ( 107 years old ) in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".
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Jazz: The Only Way of Life
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
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The Jazz Ambassadors
2018-05-04
Brownie Speaks
2014-08-26
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014-05-24
Music According to Tom Jobim
2012-05-20
The Harlem Renaissance
2004-01-01
Improvisation
2004-01-01
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
2002-05-28
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
1998-11-16
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
1995-01-01
A Great Day in Harlem
1994-09-27
El invierno en Lisboa
1991-04-12
Amazonia
1990-01-24
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
1989-10-22
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
1989-05-19
Didn't We Ramble On
1989-01-01
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
1986-10-17
The Cosmic Eye
1986-06-06
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
1985-01-01
A Family Circus Easter
1982-08-19
Dizzy's Dream Band
1982-01-01
The Beginnings of Bebop
1981-05-19
Música para Sempre
1980-10-29
Voyage to Next
1974-10-01
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
1967-06-16
The Hat
1964-09-21
Dizzy Gillespie
1964-01-01
The Hole
1962-11-08
Date with Dizzy
1958-01-01
Jivin' in Bebop
1946-01-02
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