Dizzy Gillespie
Biography
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] 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 the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s Gillespie, 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, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman. AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movies (45)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
as Self (archive footage)
2024
A Supermarket in Californi
Music (Sound)
2024
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
as Self - trompettiste
2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
2019
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Jazz Ambassadors
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Brownie Speaks
as Self
2014
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
2012
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
as Self
2011
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
as Self
2009
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
as Self
2008
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
as Self
2006
The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Improvisation
as Self
2004
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
as Self
2002
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
as Self
1998
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
as Self
1995
A Great Day in Harlem
as Self
1994
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
as Self (archive footage)
1992
El invierno en Lisboa
as Bill Swann
1991
Amazonia
as (voice)
1990
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
as Self
1990
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
as Self
1989
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
as Self - Trumpet
1989
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
as Self
1989
Didn't We Ramble On
as Narrator
1989
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
as Self
1986
The Cosmic Eye
as The Musicians
1986
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
as Self
1985
Hello
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1984
A Family Circus Easter
as Easter Bunny (voice)
1982
Dizzy's Dream Band
as Self
1982
The Beginnings of Bebop
as Self
1981
Música para Sempre
as Self
1980
The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
as Self (archive footage)
1979
Second Chance: Sea
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet - Berliner Jazztage 1974
as Self
1974
Voyage to Next
as Father Time (voice)
1974
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972
