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
Jambo Caribe
Original Score from The Cool World
The Essential Dizzy Gillespie
The Essential Dizzy Gillespie
Don't Throw Your Back Outa Wack / N.A.T.R.A.
Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie
The Best of the Dizzy Gillespie Small Groups
The Chains / The Swords
Bop Best Band
Diz 'N’ Bird The Beginning
Dizzy Gillespie
Soul Mates
Soul Mates
The Melody Lingers On
The Melody Lingers On
Winchester Cathedral / The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon
Live At The Village Vanguard
The Everlivin' "Diz"
Chicken Giblets / Potlicka
Galveston
It's My Way
It's My Way
Jazz of the Forties / Hot vs Cool
Medley - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In
Soul & Salvation
The Windmills Of Your Mind / Ann, Wonderful One
Cornucopia
Cornucopia
Portrait of Jenny
Soul Kiss
The Real Thing
Blues People
Early Modern: 1946 Concert Recordings
Giants
Giants
In Concert
Jazz Spectrum Vol. 11
Portrait Of Jenny
Echoes of an Era: The Best of Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker / John Coltrane
Jazz-History Vol. 3
Newport in New York '72 - The Jam Sessions, Volume 2
Strictly Bebop
The Giants of Jazz
Dizzy Gillespie Volume II
Dizzy In Paris
In the Beginning
Pleyel Concerts
The Source
A Musical Safari
Groovin' High
In Concert.....Carnegie Hall
Volume III
Gillespie Concert 1950 N.1
The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
The Giant
The Giant
Things To Come
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
Credits
Ornithology: The Best Of Bird
Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings
The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection
A Tribute to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes
¡The Long Lost Bird Live Afro-CuBop Recordings!
NDR 60 Years Jazz Edition No. 01
Two-Shade
Parkdale
Diasporas
The Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions
Sittin' In
Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington
Talkin’ Bird
Something Old, Something New
Strings of Desire
Be Bop
Diz ’n Bird at Carnegie Hall
Dizzy for President
Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Volume One
The Chronological Classics: Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra 1944-1945
The Cool World / Dizzy Goes Hollywood
Groovin' High
The Bop Session
Verve Jazz Masters 25
Gillespiana and Carnegie Hall Concert
Pleyel 48 + Max Roach Quintet 49
Taurus Woman
Twisted Blues
At the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
Dizzy Gillespie, Volume 1/2 (1946–1949)
The Indispensable Coleman Hawkins: “Body and Soul” (1927–1956)
To Bird With Love
The Genius of Charlie Parker
The Immortal Charlie Parker
Max + Dizzy - Paris 1989
“Rahsaan”: The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk
The Bebop Revolution
Jazz at The Philharmonic London, 1969
Montreux '77: Oscar Peterson Jam
Voodoo
Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
Oop-Pop-A-Da
Shaw 'Nuff
The Legendary Masters Unissued or Rare 1951-65
Bennett / Berlin
Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
Dee Gee Days
Vocalese
To a Finland Station
Do I Do
Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium I
The Alternate Blues
Digital at Montreux, 1980
Dizzy Gillespie Jam: Montreux '77
Tarantella
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big Four
Jazz Maturity... Where It's Coming From