Dizzy Gillespie
Actor
- Born
- October 21, 1917 · Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
- Died
- January 6, 1993 (age 75)
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.
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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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- 2024Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Maurice Baquet, The Accorded as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Jazz Club 2
- 2022Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970 as Self - trompettiste
- 2022Charlie Parker: Bird Songs as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street as Self (archive footage)
- 2020Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Jazz: The Only Way of Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Musician (archive footage)
