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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge 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 early bebop styles. His beret and h…
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entertainment · American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993) · pianist · composer · trumpeter · bandleader · conductor · jazz musician · singer · recording artist · musician · also Dizzy Gillespie, John Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Dizzy Gillespie, Gillespie
Born 21 October 1917 · Died 6 January 1993 · Q49575
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Jazz: Dizzy Gillespie
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2021· 1 entry
Westword: Dazzle Celebrates Dizzy Gillespie’s 104th Birthday With Longtime Bassist John Lee
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2017· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Dizzy Gillespie: Serious and Showy
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2014· 4 entries
Time: LIFE With Dizzy Gillespie: Rare and Classic Portraits of a Playful Genius
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The Guardian: Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience review – doesn't quite match legend's pulse-quickening racket
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014).
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Gillespie was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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2013· 1 entry
Time: Dizzy Gillespie: Remembering a Jazz Legend
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2011· 1 entry
NPR: Dizzy Gillespie: The 'All Things Considered' Interview, 1986
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2009· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: A Heavenly Collaboration: Dizzy Gillespie and Dr. Jazz
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2006· 1 entry
In "A Jazz New Year's Eve: Freddy Cole & the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band" at the Kennedy Center
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2004· 1 entry
Jazz: Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “I Grandi Del Jazz - Dizzie Gillespie - Ultimate Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Was posthumously inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to Afro-Cuban music
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Jazz Studies: The Best of the Perception Years”.
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Released album “Sweet Stuff”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Good Bait”.
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Released album “Cool Breeze”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Swings”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Closer to the Source”.
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Released album “Something Old, Something New”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Bird Songs”.
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Released album “The Roots of Jazz/ Dizzy Gillespie”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Manteca”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “The Bop Session”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie In Paris, Volume 1”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “Lady Be Good”.
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Released album “Hot House”.
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Released album “Roy and Diz”.
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Released album “Con Alma”.
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Released album “Groovin' High”.
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1993· 3 entries
Died 1993-01-06.
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Received the Polar Music Prize in Sweden
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie And The Mitchell-Ruff Duo”.
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1992· 6 entries
Carnegie Hall, following the Second Baháʼí World Congress, celebrated Gillespie's 75th birthday concert and his offering to the celebration of the centenary of the passing of Baháʼu'lláh
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Released album “Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Inc.”.
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Released album “A Jazz Hour With Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Released album “Jazz Tribune Nr 2 Dizzy Gillespie (1946-1949) CD2”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gilespie With Gil Fuller, The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra”.
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Released album “Jazz Tribune Nr 2 Dizzy Gillespie (1946-1949) CD1”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “Rhythmstick”.
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Gillespie received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Wynton Marsalis
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner”.
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Released album “Dizzy's Big 4”.
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While touring with Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra
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1989· 5 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1989).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989).
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Gillespie was awarded with an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music
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Gillespie received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “The Symphony Sessions: August 25th, 1989”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “Show Time”.
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Released album “Oop-Pop-A-Da”.
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Released album “Shaw 'Nuff”.
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Released album “Endlessly”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “New Faces”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “To a Finland Station”.
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Released album “Jazz At The Philharmonic - The Challenges 1954”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Live”.
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Released album “The Alternate Blues”.
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Was sought out by Motown musician Stevie Wonder to play his solo in Wonder's 1982 hit single "Do I Do"
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “The Source”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big Four”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “The Gifted Ones”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz Maturity... Where It's Coming From”.
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Free Ride”.
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Gillespie met Arturo Sandoval during a jazz cruise to Havana
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods”.
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Released album “Bahiana”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “The Giant”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Giants”.
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Announced he would run again but withdrew before the election
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Cornucopia”.
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Released album “The Real Thing”.
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Released album “Portrait of Jenny”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Soul & Salvation”.
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Released album “It's My Way”.
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “The Melody Lingers On”.
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Released album “Soul Mates”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Dizzy Goes Hollywood”.
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Released album “Jambo Caribe”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “New Wave”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie & The Double Six of Paris”.
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1962· 1 entry
Gillespie and actor George Mathews starred in The Hole, an animated short film by John and Faith Hubley
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Perceptions”.
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1960· 1 entry
Released album “Gillespiana”.
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1959· 2 entries
Released album “Sonny Side Up”.
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Released album “Have Trumpet, Will Excite!”.
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “Duets”.
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From an affair with songwriter Connie Bryson
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Released album “Sittin' In”.
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1957· 8 entries
Released album “Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band Jazz”.
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Released album “School Days”.
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Released album “Dizzy in Greece”.
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Released album “For Musicians Only”.
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Released album “The Dizzy Gillespie Story”.
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Released album “Tour de Force”.
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Released album “Dizzy at Home and Abroad”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith”.
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1956· 5 entries
Released album “Jazz Creations of Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Released album “The Trumpet Kings”.
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Released album “World Statesman”.
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Gillespie organized a band to travel on a State Department tour of the Middle East, which was well-received internationally and earned him the nickname "the Ambassador of Jazz"
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Released album “The Champ”.
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1955· 5 entries
Released album “Dizzy and Strings”.
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Released album “Diz and Getz”.
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Released album “Roy & Diz”.
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Released album “New Jazz Sounds”.
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Released album “Jazz Recital”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Blow That Horn! Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1”.
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1953· 7 entries
Threw a party for his wife Lorraine at Snookie's, a club in Manhattan, where his trumpet's bell was accidentally bent upward
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During a birthday party for Gillespie's wife Lorraine
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie Plays in Paris”.
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Released album “Dizzy in Paris”.
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Released album “Bird - Diz - Bud - Max”.
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Released album “Horn of Plenty”.
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Released album “Dizzy Over Paris”.
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1952· 6 entries
Released album “Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Released album “Dizzy, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Hot Vs. Cool (A Battle of Jazz)”.
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Released album “Bird and Diz”.
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Released album “Dizzy, Volume I”.
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Released album “Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 2”.
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1951· 3 entries
Gillespie founded his record label, Dee Gee Records; it closed in 1953
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Released album “Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session”.
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Released album “Modern Jazz Trumpets”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “Dizzy Gillespie Plays & Johnny Richards Conducts”.
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1948· 1 entry
Gillespie was involved in a traffic accident when the bicycle he was riding was bumped by an automobile
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1947· 1 entry
Released album “Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars”.
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1945· 1 entry
Presented bebop to a broad audience; recordings of it were released in 2005
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1944· 2 entries
(on Apollo Records), the first formal recording of bebop
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Gillespie left Eckstine's band because he wanted to play with a small combo (which typically comprised no more than five musicians, playing trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums)
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1943· 1 entry
I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians
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1942· 1 entry
While Dizzy was with Earl Hines's band, is noted for its syncopated bass line—a feature common in today's music
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1939· 1 entry
With the help of Willis, Gillespie joined Cab Calloway's orchestra
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1935· 1 entry
After which he joined the orchestras of Edgar Hayes and later Teddy Hill, replacing Frankie Newton as second trumpet in May 1937
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-10-21.
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