On February 20th, as part of the month-long Black History celebration, the Harlem School of the Arts will launch an important new, FREE music program, the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy. Learn more!

The packages will feature liner notes by music historian Cary Ginell who wrote the book Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Cannonball Adderley. The notes include interviews with quintet members Wolff ...

Dizzy Gillespie eventually pulled out of the race for president. He did eventually make it to the White House in 1978, when then-president Jimmy Carter invited him to play there.

Scrapbook photos of Mr. Gillespie with his family (left), and playing music with Philip Gillespie, in Mr. Gillespie’s home (right). Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times ...