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.

Make a shortlist of your favorite, classic Dizzy Gillespie songs and the odds are that more than a few of them will share a connection to arranger Gil Fuller. Gillespie worked closely with Fuller ...

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.

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: Sittin' In album review by George Harris, published on September 6, 2005. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

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 . . .

Put yourself in a spin with Codemasters’ Christmas gift – an egg-shell-hen-t bit of retro fun: the complete edition of Treasure Island Dizzy from way back in 1988!

6. Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie, “Live in New Orleans” On Jan. 15, 1986, jazz trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie joined New Orleans’ mighty Dirty Dozen onstage at the Orpheum Theater.

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch Dizzy Gillespie Live in Montreal (2002). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.