Dizzy Gillespie
Acting
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
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
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Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
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Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
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Jazz: The Only Way of Life
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
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The Jazz Ambassadors
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Brownie Speaks
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Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
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The Music According to Tom Jobim
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All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
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The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
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Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
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Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
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Improvisation
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
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Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
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Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
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A Great Day in Harlem
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Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
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El invierno en Lisboa
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Amazonia
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To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
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Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
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A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
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Didn't We Ramble On
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Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
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Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
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The Cosmic Eye
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Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
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A Family Circus Easter
Easter Bunny (voice)
Dizzy's Dream Band
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The Beginnings of Bebop
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Música para Sempre
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The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
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Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
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Voyage to Next
Father Time (voice)
Jazz Is Our Religion
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
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Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
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The Hat
The First Border Guard (voice)
Dizzy Gillespie
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Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
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The Hole
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Date with Dizzy
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Jivin' in Bebop
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