The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie's pioneering bebop big band could not be served ... This third album mines the original '40s book for gems like Tadd Dameron's "Cool Breeze" and Gil Fuller's charts on ...

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few jazz musicians equally adept ... CD1: Dizzy's Blues; School Days; Dizzy Speaks; Doodlin'; Manteca; I Remember Clifford; Cool Breeze; Sign Off; Roses of ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, who would have celebrated his 97th birthday on Oct. 21, was the very model of the modern American musical genius: a brilliant instrumentalist and stylistic ...

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917-93) was unforgettable. If you knew him, you have a story about him. And he was productive: He first worked in the trumpet sections of big bands, until he stepped ...

Early in his musical career, when he was playing with swing bands, he gained the nickname most know him by, "Dizzy." Gillespie was one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. He came into ...

Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie joined Dalphine Redd and her family for the holiday meal at their Silver Spring home in the 1980s. (Family photo) Perspective by John Kelly The best jazz requires ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library ... opening the door for its great modern period—the pre-birth of cool!—and yet who carried a “personality of warmth and openness ...

When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of ...

Stan Levey, an influential modern jazz drummer who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker ... what was called “West Coast jazz” or the “cool school” of modern jazz.