Dizzy Gillespie's harmonic and rhythmic innovations had an enormous impact on virtually every subsequent trumpeter, both by the example of his playing and as a mentor to younger musicians. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elect ...

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"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 ...

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, ...

Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt—beautifully reissued on AAA vinyl by Optimal. This hard ...

Jazz pianist, entrepreneur and promoter George Wein used this 1890s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as his offices and regularly played there with the likes of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie ...

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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