John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/ gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator...
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This is a list of works by American jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie. 1937–1949: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings compilation album (RCA Victor) 1945–1947:...
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The New Guy (redirect from Dizzy Gillespie Harrison)
opening, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18-year-old nerdy high school senior in Austin, Texas. Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and...
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Dizzy Gillespie at Newport is a 1957 live album by Dizzy Gillespie, featuring his big band, recorded at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. The AllMusic review...
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Jazz (section Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo)
56. Peñalosa 2010, pp. 131–136. Gillespie, Dizzy; Fraser, Al (1985). To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 77....
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A Night in Tunisia (category Compositions by Dizzy Gillespie)
in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie around 1940–1942. He wrote it while he was playing with the Benny Carter...
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compilation album of studio sessions by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the album as "some of the key bebop...
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The jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie campaigned as an independent write-in candidate during the 1964 United States presidential campaign. He promised that...
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Afro-Cubans in New York City. In 1947, the collaborations of bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and percussionist Chano Pozo brought Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments...
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DeFranco; trumpeters Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie; pianists Bud Powell, Barry Harris and Thelonious Monk; electric guitarist...
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Ron Holloway (section Dizzy Gillespie)
year. He has been a member of the Warren Haynes Band, Susan Tedeschi, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Scott-Heron and Root Boy Slim. Since 2014, Ron Holloway has led...
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Life)) Dizzy Gillespie: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–49) rel. 1995 Dizzy Gillespie: Pleyel 48 (Vogue, 1948) Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie...
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1944 The Immortal Charlie Parker Bird: Master Takes Encores 1945 Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High The Genius of Charlie Parker The Charlie Parker Story...
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The following is a discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917 – 1982). Blue Sphere (Black Lion, ?) – recorded on November...
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by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1977 he met Gillespie, who became his friend and mentor and helped him defect...
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Chan Parker (Venora), Bebop pioneer trumpet player and band leader Dizzy Gillespie (Wright), and his influence (both musically and into the world of heroin...
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Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie is an album by Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie that was released in 1974. At the Grammy Awards of 1976, Gillespie won the Grammy...
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all-white audiences; trumpet player Bernard Anderson introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie. The band also toured nightclubs and other venues of the southwest...
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Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He played Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker. Wright also played...
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Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. She has been noted for her 1954 conversion to Catholicism, which led...
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Billy Eckstine's big band with Gene Ammons and Dexter Gordon, and Dizzy Gillespie's big band. Stitt was a leader of Bebop Boys and Galaxy in 1946 and...
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Billy Berg's (section Dizzy Gillespie Quintet debut)
Charlie Parker.[1] The Vine Street club was most noted for booking the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, an engagement that lasted from Monday, 10 December 1945 to...
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the instrument in Benny Goodman's band. Jackson was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie, who hired him for his sextet in 1945, then his larger ensembles. Jackson...
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from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. His band included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Jonah Jones, and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster...
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Santos 1974 Duke's Big 4, Duke Ellington Quartet 1974 Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4, Dizzy Gillespie 1975 Happy Time, Roy Eldridge 1975 Zoot Sims and the Gershwin...
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composed and arranged by J. J. Johnson. The piece was commissioned by Dizzy Gillespie and recorded in 1961 for the Verve label. The instrumentation of the...
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Flory Band, Jimmy Giuffre Three with Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall, Dizzy Gillespie, Claude Gilroy Quintet, Virgil Gonsalves Sextet, Billie Holiday, Milt...
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brought Gillespie to see Longo playing with Paul Chambers. Gillespie hired Longo the next day. Longo became musical director for the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet...
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Minton's Playhouse (section Bird and Dizzy)
Monk, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie pioneered the new music. Minton's thrived for three decades until its...
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the film Big Trouble, Junior in the film Lone Star State of Mind, Dizzy Gillespie Harrison in the film The New Guy, and Rat in the sci-fi film The Core...
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