Gillespie, Dizzy(John Birks Gillespie)gəlĕsˈpē[key], 1917–93, American jazz musician and composer, b. Cheraw, S.C. He began to play the trumpet at 15 and later studied harmony and theory at Laurinburg Institute, N.C. He played with the bands of Cab Calloway and Billy Eckstin...
DIZZY GILLESPIE and his upswept trumpet could take you from Oop-Shoo-Be-Do-Be to the stars. "I am developing," he once said when in many ways (such as playing fast and high and logically) he was already unsurpassed. What he wrote about his great trumpet-playing predecessor Louis ...
Gillespie also contributed several advanced arrangements to such bands as Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, and Woody Herman; the latter advised him to give up his trumpet playing and stick to full-time arranging. Dizzy ignored the advice, jammed at Mintons Playhouse and Monroes Uptown House where he...
When Dizzy was 10, his father died, by which time he had tried just about every instrument in the house. His education continued by way of trumpet and piano, and when the Gillespie family moved to Philadelphia in 1935, Diz soon began playing in clubs. While in Frankie Fairfax’s band, ...
A jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played with Charlie Parker and developed the music known as "bebop." His best-known compositions include "Oop Bob Sh' Bam," "Salt Peanuts" and "A Night in Tunisia."
Trumpeter, bandleader and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born on October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. The last of nine children in a poor family, Gillespie originally played trombone, switching to trumpet when he was 12. ...
"Dizzy" Gillespie's trademark "Silver Bell" trumpet.NMAH As a young man, while playing in Cab Calloway’s Big Band at the Cotton Club in Harlem, Gillespie met a Cuban-American trumpeter and became interested in creating fusions of Afro-Cuban music with Jazz. “He then wrote several Latin-...
出演艺人 Dizzy Gillespie 表演者 Roy Eldridge 表演者 Oscar Peterson 钢琴 Herb Ellis 吉他 Ray Brown 立式贝斯 Louis Bellson 鼓 作曲和作词 Roy Eldridge 作曲 Dizzy Gillespie 作曲 制作和工程 Norman Granz 制作人 更多Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie的作品 Nothing but the Blues (feat. Ray Brown...
Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was one of the seminal figures of the bebop movement. A noted composer, his songbook is a list of bebop’s greatest hits; ‘Salt Peanuts,’‘Woody ’n’ You,’‘Con Alma,’‘Groovi
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