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2 giorni fa · John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l ɛ s p i / gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
18 lug 2024 · Dizzy Gillespie (born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was one of the seminal figures of the bebop movement.
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4 giorni fa · Gillespie draws on his signature conflation of the blues scale with the bebop scale, and the gospel inspiration here allows him to indulge his fondness for vocal-sounding half-valves and sudden upward shouts.
6 lug 2024 · - Concert -00:00 - 01 - And Then She Stopped05:03 - 02 - Tin Tin Deo10:58 - 03 - Um - Hum 15:52 - 04 - No More Blues21:28 - 05 - Over the Rainbow26:44 - 06 -...
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4 giorni fa · On this day (May 17) in 1937, trumpeter John Birks Gillespie — better known by his nickname, Dizzy — made his first known recording, appearing with the Teddy Hill NBC Orchestra on the Jelly Roll Morton tune “King Porter Stomp” for RCA Records.
17 lug 2024 · “A Night in Tunisia” is a quintessential composition by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Its origins remain somewhat of a mystery. However, many sources have claimed to have located its genesis to Gillespie’s time as a member of Benny Carter’s band in 1942.
2 giorni fa · Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie wasn’t only a key innovator of bebop and the jazz idiom at large; he was also known for being a prankster whose mischievous humor occasionally got him in trouble. He played his most remarkable prank in 1963 and 1964, when he got as close to becoming president of the United States as a black jazzman possibly could.
