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person_profile-Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie Died at age: 75

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Dizzy Gillespie

Date of Birth:

Oct 21, 1917

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 06, 1993

Biography of

Dizzy Gillespie

    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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Dizzy Gillespie

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Filmography of

Dizzy Gillespie

Found 24 Movies in total

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Self (Archival Footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Jazz: The Only Way of Life

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Self - Musician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

The Jazz Ambassadors

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Brownie Speaks

Self ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2008

... 2006

Improvisation

Self ( Actor )

... 2004

The Harlem Renaissance

Self (archival footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

... 1998

... 1995

... 1994

El invierno en Lisboa

Bill Swann ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 1991

... 1989

... 1989

... 1989

The Cosmic Eye

The Musicians ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1985

... 1979

Jivin' in Bebop

Self ( Actor )

... 1946