
Dizzy Gillespie
Biography
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". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Maurice Baquet, The Accorded

Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970

Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Jazz: The Only Way of Life

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

The Jazz Ambassadors

Brownie Speaks

Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

Music According to Tom Jobim

All-Star Jazz Show: Live From The Ed Sullivan Theater

The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best

Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70

The Harlem Renaissance

Improvisation

Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal

Monterey Jazz Festival 1975

Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

A Great Day in Harlem

El invierno en Lisboa

Amazonia

To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life

Slim Gaillard's Civilisation

A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba

Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Didn't We Ramble On

Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis

The Cosmic Eye

Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)

A Family Circus Easter

Dizzy's Dream Band

The Beginnings of Bebop

Música para Sempre

The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story

Voyage to Next

Duke Ellington: Love You Madly

Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith

The Hat

Dizzy Gillespie

Cool

The Hole

Date with Dizzy
