It's quite a stretch to call this CD the very best, since all of the music was recorded between 1946 and 1949. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was one of the leaders of bebop but also forged an important ...

ONE NIGHT ONLY featuring Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove, Claudio Roditi, Antonio Hart, Steve Davis, Roberta Gambarini, Cyrus Chestnut, John Lee, Willie Jones III & more! WHAT: The Dizzy ...

The second recording by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band offers seventy minutes of superb, often legendary talents doing full justice to timeless material. While only three of the eleven tracks ...

A friend of mine, music industry veteran Jeff Gold (www.recordmecca.com) recently showed me Guerney’s 2005 Jazz auction catalogue. For sale in it were both Dizzy Gillespie’s famous upward-bell trumpet ...

Dizzy Gillespie, the seminal American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer and composer born John Birks Gillespie, would have turned 93 today. Google are celebrating his birthday by featuring a ...

His trumpet was bent, his on-stage antics were quirky and unpredictable, but Dizzy Gillespie’s impact on jazz was straight-laced and undeniable. One of the fathers of the bebop movement, Gillespie ...

We're marking 100 years of Dizzy Gillespie this month on ABC Jazz. Take a look back at one of jazz's most iconic trumpet players and personalities. From bebop to Afro Cuban music and even a run at the ...

Playing Dizzy Gillespie's music is an ambitious project, but the Bill Blackmore Sextet rose to the challenge last week in the John Field Room. In 'Dizzy Atmosphere', Blackmore (trumpet) was supported ...

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Dizzy Gillespie, the seminal American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer and composer born John Birks Gillespie, would have turned 93 today. Google are celebrating his birthday by featuring a ...