This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with American jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s trumpet. In the 1940s, Gillespie, renowned for his harmonic complexity and scat ...
Slide Hampton, longtime friend and associate of jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, will be leading the moving tribute to this fallen hero at the Frost School of Music. Nine years after his ...
All About Jazz is celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today! John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement ...
Citizens Jazz pays tribute to legendary American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the ...
The Jazz Houston Orchestra celebrates the music of John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, the creator of Bebop, and that of those he influenced. The guest artist will be trumpeter Jon Faddis, who was Gillespie ...
The legendary jazz trumpeter John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie came to Spokane in May 1980 to play a gig at the Spokane Opera House (now the First Interstate Center for the Arts) with the Spokane Jazz ...
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; – ) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, ...
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 ...
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 ...