FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Today we honor the birth of famed trumpeter and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie. Starting his career performing with prominent swing bands, Gillespie later created his own band ...
Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpet player whose role as a founding father of modern jazz made him a major figure in 20th-century American music and whose signature moon cheeks and bent trumpet made him one ...
When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of those ...
In early October 1947, Billy Shaw, a partner in the Gale booking agency, announced in Downbeat magazine that client Dizzy Gillespie and his big band would be performing at Cornell University on ...
October 21st marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie, an innovator of giant proportion who, along with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, led a musical revolution ...
The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...
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