2024 has more than proven to be an intense political year as the country has faced the assassination attempt of one candidate and then the withdrawal of another just four months before the polls open ...

Dizzy Gillespie and his iconic trumpet -- with its turned up bell -- brought a new era of American jazz to a global audience. It's part of our 250th anniversary series America in Pursuit.

Most jazz fans know Dizzy Gillespie's crucial role in the creation of bebop and every good collection should have at least a few tracks from his glory days of the forties. The man wrote "Night in ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ago ...

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Dizzy Gillespie once said that he heard Roy Eldridge playing trumpet and uttered, "That's the job I want." Later, the two musicians were bitter... Dizzy Gillespie: 'Roy and Diz' [MUSIC] A.B. SPELLMAN, ...

The first six tracks on this album, which were recorded at New York City's Town Hall on June 22, 1945, are amongst the most exciting in the jazz compendium. Not only because of their intrinsic ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...