Dizzy Gillespie - Biography
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Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarr... More »
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dizzy gillespie . american jazz musician . b 1917 . d 1993 ... John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina and died in Englewood, New Jersey.
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The biography of Dizzy Gillespie; part of the exploration of jazz history of the 20th Century; including the main periods, styles and musicians important to Jazz music. ... Dizzy Gillespie was the youngest of nine children. He performed with a number of groups throughout his career, briefly owned a record company,
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History Made Every Day™ ... Renowned jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, born John Birks Gillespie in 1917, dies of cancer at age 75 on this day. ... Gillespie (whose nickname of "Dizzy" came from his crazy sense of humor) joined the Cab Calloway band in 1939, but Calloway fired him in 1941, purportedly because his wit...
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Bebop was born in 1941, when trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (1917), double bass player Milt Hinton, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianist Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke began playing informally together. Its official birth place was "Minton's Playhouse", a New York club. ... A History of Jazz Music...
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (pronounced /gɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major...
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1963 Dizzy Gillespie et les Double Six ... 1974 Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 ... Black History...
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