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The aim of this legacy outfit is to explore the groundbreaking "Cubop" music that emerged from the meeting between US bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and the Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. The band ...

The Cuban trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval speaks about his new album, being mentored by Dizzy Gillespie, and jazz saving his ...

FRANCE - JANUARY 01: Photo of Dizzy GILLESPIE; performing live onstage, (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns) FRANCE - JANUARY 01: Photo of Dizzy GILLESPIE; performing live onstage, (Photo by David ...

Dizzy Gillespie Concert from New York's Fillmore East, recorded in 1970 has just been released for free streaming on WolfgangsVault.com, the world's largest live music archive and website. American ...

Dizzy Gillespie, the seminal American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer and composer born John Birks Gillespie, would have turned 93 today. Google are celebrating his birthday by featuring a ...

Earlier this week, I posted on two superb orchestral albums by Dizzy Gillespie in 1960—A Portrait of Duke Ellington (arranged by Clare Fischer) and Gillespiana (arranged by Lalo Schifrin). Both albums ...

It was a piece of black and white magic, a perfect fusion of sound and music boasting Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington – and lots of smoke. Can the landmark TV show now bewitch a new generation of fans ...

In 1964, a jazz icon decided he would bring attention to social issues.

His trumpet was bent, his on-stage antics were quirky and unpredictable, but Dizzy Gillespie’s impact on jazz was straight-laced and undeniable. One of the fathers of the bebop movement, Gillespie ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels ...

A trumpet angled skyward, cheeks puffed to impossible proportions, and a burst of rapid-fire notes signaled the arrival of Dizzy Gillespie, one of the architects of modern jazz. Rising to prominence ...