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.

Dizzy Gillespie spent much time traveling the world as a musical ambassador for the United States. This 1956 recording is the first of three volumes recorded during travels to South America for a ...

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.

Paul picks up the story behind the image: “I first met Dizzy Gillespie in 1970, at the home of Arthur and Joyce Dahl, in Pebble Beach, CA. The Dahls were great supporters of the arts. Arthur, ...

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...

Dizzy Gillespie saw himself as a kind of musical prophet. “I’d like to be known as a major messenger to jazz rather than a legendary figure,” he writes in his 1979 memoir, to BE, or not to . . .