Dizzy Gillespie
Born October 21, 1917 (Age: 108)
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Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Biography
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman. AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".
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Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 106
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
2023
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 106
Improvisation
2004
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as Self
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Age: 86
The Harlem Renaissance
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 86
No Image
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
2002
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as Self
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Age: 84
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
1998
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as Self
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Age: 81
A Great Day in Harlem
1994
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as Self
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Age: 76
No Image
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 74
El invierno en Lisboa
1991
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as Bill Swann
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Age: 73
Amazonia
1990
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as (voice)
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Age: 72
No Image
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
1990
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as Self
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Age: 72
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
1989
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as Self
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Age: 72
Didn't We Ramble On
1989
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as Narrator
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Age: 71
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
1989
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as Self
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Age: 71
The Beginnings of Bebop
1981
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
Música para Sempre
1980
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as Self
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Age: 63
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
1974
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as Self
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Age: 57
Voyage to Next
1974
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as Father Time (voice)
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Age: 56
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972
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as
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Age: 54
No Image
The Hat
1964
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as The First Border Guard (voice)
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Age: 46
Dizzy Gillespie
1964
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as Self
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Age: 46
No Image
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
1963
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as Self
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Age: 45
The Hole
1962
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as (voice)
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Age: 45
Date with Dizzy
1956
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as Self
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Age: 38