When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of those ...

Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny ...

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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He ...

We think of him as the Santa Claus of jazz — a laughing white-haired patriarch, almost a comic fool with puffed cheeks and a bent horn. But between his jokes and his good-will work for jazz, we forget ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: That's one of the most fully orchestral sounds you'll ever hear in jazz music. It's the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band from the late '40s. And A.B. Spellman, you say ...

Legends Live: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet is a collection of previously unreleased tracks from two 1961 concert performances in Stuttgart and Frankfurt by the bebop trumpet giant culled from the archives ...

Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra, a clutch of musicians from the Americas and the Caribbean. That appointment, which ended ...

If for many enthusiasts, the Dizzy Gillespie original "Be Bop" recording, which featured the trumpeter with the youthful Charlie Parker on sax, became the avatar of the new genre that was to bear its ...

The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...

Charleston Jazz artist Duda Lucena, Dizzy Gillespie profile, Patrick Davis Group. This week on Palmetto Scene is all about jazz. Charleston has always been a city with deep roots to jazz music and ...

Slide Hampton, longtime friend and associate of jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, will be leading the moving tribute to this fallen hero at the Frost School of Music. Nine years after his ...