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 ...

Li’l Dizzy’s owner, Wayne Baquet, Sr., had worked in his family’s restaurants all his life. The Creole Baquet family are also known for a lineage in music and the newspaper business.

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 ...

Entertainment Music Ignacio Berroa, formerly Dizzy Gillespie’s go-to drummer, swings into Seattle April 11, 2019 at 6:00 am ...

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.

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 ...