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Dizzy Gillespie
Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
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 a…
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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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2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
A Supermarket in California
Movie Music
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2023
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Jazz Club 2
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2022
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
Movie Self - trompettiste
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2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Self - Musician (archive footage)
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2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
The Jazz Ambassadors
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Brownie Speaks
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2014
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2011
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- 2006
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2004
Improvisation
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2004
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
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1998
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
Movie Self
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1995
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
Movie Self
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1994
A Great Day in Harlem
Movie Self
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1993
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
Movie Self - Musician, Trumpet
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1992
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
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1991
El invierno en Lisboa
Movie Bill Swann
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1990
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Movie Self
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1990
Amazonia
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1990
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
Movie Self
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1989
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
Movie Self
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1989
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Movie Self - Trumpet
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1989
Didn't We Ramble On
Movie Narrator
- 1989
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1986
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
Movie Self
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1986
The Cosmic Eye
Movie The Musicians
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1985
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
Movie Self
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1984
The Cosby Show
TV show Mr. Hampton
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1984
Olympic Gala
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