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 ...

Trumpeter John Birks Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in Cheraw, S.C. His family moved to Philadelphia when he was 14. It was there where he began picking up professional gigs. Early in his ...

Gillespie would later appear on the Dirty Dozen’s 1989 classic “Voodoo,” but before that, he joined the band for an exciting night at the Orpheum Theater in 1986.

Sandoval is standing near a portrait of himself in his 20’s with Dizzy Gillespie. He’s been playing trumpet for 53 years. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer) ...

Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpet player whose role as a founding father of modern jazz made him a major figure in 20th-century American music and whose signature moon cheeks and bent trumpet made him one ...

With the release of Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: Showtime at the Spotlite, we now have a remarkable document. Recorded at the Spotlite club on New York's 52d St., likely on June 28, 1946 (see yesterday's ...

Read about others here. Mike Longo, a jazz pianist, composer and educator best known for his long association with the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, died on March 22 in Manhattan. He was 83.

Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie holds a campaign balloon during his 1963-64 run for the White House. Gilles Petard/Redferns/Getty Images. A 2024 election pop quiz.