Person
Dizzy Gillespie
Albums
618
Members
22
Active
1917–1993
Origin
United States
Biography
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. In the 1940s Gillespie, together 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, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
Discography
Lover Man / Shaw 'Nuff
Salted Peanuts / Be-Bop
I Can't Get Started / Good Bait
Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars
Sessions and Jams, New York City, 1947
Dizzy Gillespie Plays & Johnny Richards Conducts
Dizzy Gillespie Plays Johnny Richards Conducts Vol. I
Lullaby Of The Leaves / On The Alamo
Alone Together / There Are Things I Love
Blue Skies / Pop's Confessin'
Dizzy Gillespie Plays Johnny Richards Conducts
Modern Jazz Trumpets
O-Sho-Be-Do-Be / Sunny Side Of The Street
Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / What Is There To Say
Bird and Diz
Cool Breeze
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie and Modern Trumpets
Dizzy Gillespie And Modern Trumpets
Dizzy Gillespie / Charley Christian 1941 (Minton's Playhouse & Monroe's Uptown, New York City)
Dizzy Gillespie Play & Sing In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie - Vol. 2
Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 2
Dizzy, Volume 2
Dizzy, Volume I
Hot Vs. Cool (A Battle of Jazz)
Originators Of Modern Jazz
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Interlude In "C"
Afro-Paris / I Cover The Waterfront
Bird - Diz - Bud - Max
Dizzy And His Orchestra
Dizzy Gillespie / Charley Christian 1941 (Minton's Playhouse & Monroe's Uptown, New York City)
Dizzy Gillespie Plays in Paris
Dizzy Gillespie Plays In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie With Strings
Dizzy in Paris
Dizzy Over Paris
Horn of Plenty
The Fabulous Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948
Blow That Horn! Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1
Horn Of Plenty
Silhouette / Can You Recall?
Sweet Lorraine / Dizzy Does It
Diz and Getz
Diz And Getz
Dizzy and Strings
Dizzy And Strings
Dizzy And Strings - Album #1
Dizzy In Paris
Giants Of Modern Jazz
Groovin' High
Groovin' High
Jazz Recital
Jazz Recital
New Jazz Sounds
Roy & Diz
A Night at Carnegie Hall With Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Blue N' Boogie
Featuring The Trumpet Of Dizzy Gillespie
Credits
Dizzy’s Party
Free Ride
Sweet Soul
Bahiana
Talk With the Spirits
The Giant
Charles Mingus and Friends
In the Beginning
Very Rare
Echoes of an Era: The Best of Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker / John Coltrane
The Real Thing
Soul & Salvation
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Dear John C.
Jambo Caribe
Original Score from The Cool World
At Newport '63
Dizzy Gillespie & The Double Six of Paris
Miles & Monk at Newport
New Wave
An Electrifying Evening With the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Ben Webster and Associates
Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
Jazz Party
Sonny Side Up
The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn, Volume 2
Duets
Lou Takes Off
Milestones
A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus
At Newport
Birth of the Cool
Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith
East Coasting
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
For Musicians Only
’Round About Midnight
Jazz at Massey Hall
Krupa and Rich
Lennie Tristano
The Champ
Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. 1
Afro
Dizzy in Paris
The Fabulous Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948
Bird and Diz
Dizzy Gillespie
Dynamo A / Dynamo B
The Champ
Tin Tin Daeo / Birks Works
Shaw ’Nuff / Stupendous
You Are the One in My Heart / St. James Infirmary
16 Classics
1935-1937
1939-1940
1940
1940-1941
1940-1945
1941-1942
1941-1942