Dizzy Gillespie
Acting
- Born:
- 1917-10-21
- Died:
- 1993-01-06
- Place of birth:
- Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
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
Known For
Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Jazz Club 2
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
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
The 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
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
El invierno en Lisboa
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
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
Music in Monk Time
The Cosmic Eye
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
The Cosby Show
Olympic Gala
Bei Bio
A Family Circus Easter
Dizzy's Dream Band
The Beginnings of Bebop
Música para Sempre
The Last of the Blue Devils
The Muppet Show
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
Voyage to Next
Le Grand Échiquier
Jazz Is Our Religion
Great Performances
The Dick Cavett Show
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
The Hat
Dizzy Gillespie
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
The Hole
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Jazz Casual
Date with Dizzy
Jivin' in Be-Bop
Cool
What's Happening