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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; 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 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 its 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' 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".
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Albums
I Love Paris
Montreux '77
Dizzy's Big 4
Supreme Jazz
Soul & Salvation
Good Bait
Closer To The Source
Perceptions
Con Alma
Endlessly
Show Time
Gillespie En Vivo
To a Finland Station
The Alternate Blues
Dizzy In Greece
The Giant
Cornucopia
The Real Thing
It's My Way
Soul Mates
Pleyel 53
A Musical Safari EP
Birks' Works Single
Sonny Side Up
The Champ
World Statesman
Afro
Bird and Diz
Manteca / Cool Breeze Single
Salt Peanuts / Hot House Single
Groovin' High / Blue'n Boogie Single
Popular Songs
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
- Besame Mucho
- Exotica
- Galveston
- Magic Tree
- Games People Play
- Medley - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In
- This Girl's In Love With You
- Whatever Possess'd Me
- Turkey Fan
- The Fly Fox
- Clabber Biscuits
- Rutabaga Pie
- Casabah Melon
- Chicken Giblets
- Turnip Tops
- Stomped And Wasted
- Pot Licka
- Blue Cuchifrito
- Once In A While
- What's New
- But Beautiful
- Cherokee
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Diddy Wa Diddy–Mozambique
- Me’n Them
- Textures
- Iced Tea
- Closer To The Source
- You're No. 1 In My Book