John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He ...

During his early days as a bandleader in 1953, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie discovered that economic circumstances often take ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, who would have celebrated his 97th birthday on Oct. 21, was the very model of the modern American musical genius: a brilliant instrumentalist and stylistic innovator, he ...

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 ...

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few jazz musicians equally adept (and influential) in small groups and fronting big bands. After the bebop heyday, he spent the fifties equally divided between ...

FRANCE - JANUARY 01: Photo of Dizzy GILLESPIE; performing live onstage, (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns) It may be difficult to comprehend just how radical Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet playing must have ...

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 ...

Trumpeter John Birks Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in Cheraw, S.C. His family moved to Philadelphia when he was 14. It was there where he began picking up professional gigs. Early in his musical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dizzy Gillespie’s flamboyant modernism and fierce musical intellect were cornerstones of the be-bop revolution ...

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 ...

Stacker compiled a photographic essay of 30 memorable images from William Gottlieb's 'Golden Age of Jazz' collection of ...

Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie (no relation, alas) woulda been 93 today. He's got a special Google search engine doodle going on and he got 4-F status during World War II by telling his recruitment ...