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Dizzy Gillespie

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  • 1917 - 1993

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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

Birthday: 1917-10-21

Casted In:

Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
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A Música Segundo Tom Jobim
112409
The Hat
122824
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
149988
Voyage to Next
162770
Improvisation
162778
The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
192971
Dizzy Gillespie
229190
The Hole
234523
All-Star Jazz Show: Live From The Ed Sullivan Theater
240658
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
255725
A Date with Dizzy
263496
The Cosmic Eye
266535
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
274598
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
293954
El invierno en Lisboa
464690
Amazonia
577213
Michel Legrand: Sans demi-mesure
578840

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El invierno en Lisboa
464690
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