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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. [2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge [3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
Bryson is the daughter of composer Connie Bryson and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. [1] [2] Her paternity was kept a secret until after Gillespie's death because he was married, but she occasionally saw him growing up. [3]
She also continued to speak at Baháʼí conferences like the Oregon state women's conference, [28] served on the team commemorating Dizzy Gillespie's 50th year in music in 1985 [29] and was on the team giving a "spiritual parenting" workshop at a children's conference in Pasadena in 1987. [30]
The arc of Jones’ long career stretched from smoky jazz clubs, where he collaborated with innovators such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, to his Los Angeles power base, where ...
In the late 1950s he went on U.S. government-sponsored tours around the world with a band organized by bebop jazz pioneer Dizzy Gillespie. Jones then led his own band through Europe.
Benny Golson (January 25, 1929 – September 21, 2024) was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career.
Spouse(s) Kirsten Friesen ... Dexter Gordon, Kenny Garrett, and Dizzy Gillespie. Personal life. Friesen is the younger brother of actress Dyan Cannon, ...
The jams which took place at the Royal Roost, Bop City and Birdland between 1948 and 1949, when Howard McGhee, tenor saxophonist Brew Moore, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie sat in with the Machito orchestra, were unrehearsed, uninhibited, unheard of before jam sessions which at the time, master of ceremonies Symphony Sid called Afro-Cuban jazz.