Dizzy Gillespie
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1917-10-21
Day of Death
1993-01-06 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Dizzy Gillespie
Biography
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".
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Known For
Acting
Cool
as Self
(2024)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
as Self - trompettiste
(2021)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
as Self (Archival Footage)
(2019)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
(2019)
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
The Jazz Ambassadors
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2014)
Brownie Speaks
as Self
(2012)
Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
(2011)
(2009)
(2008)
(2006)
(2004)
The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Improvisation
as Self
(2002)
(1998)
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
as Self
(1995)
(1994)
A Great Day in Harlem
as Self
(1991)
El invierno en Lisboa
as Bill Swann
(1990)
Amazonia
as (voice)
(1989)
(1989)
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
as Self - Trumpet
(1989)
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
as Self
(1989)
Didn't We Ramble On
as Narrator
(1986)
(1986)
The Cosmic Eye
as The Musicians
(1985)
(1982)
A Family Circus Easter
as Easter Bunny (voice)
(1982)
Dizzy's Dream Band
as Self
(1981)
The Beginnings of Bebop
as Self
(1980)
Música para Sempre
as Self
(1979)
The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
as Self (archive footage)
(1974)
Voyage to Next
as Father Time (voice)
(1967)
(1966)
(1964)
The Hat
as The First Border Guard (voice)
(1964)
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self
(1962)
The Hole
as (voice)
(1958)
Date with Dizzy
as Self
(1946)
Jivin' in Bebop
as Self
Crew
(2024)
(1991)
El invierno en Lisboa
Original Music Composer
(1984)
Hello
Original Music Composer
(1977)
Second Chance: Sea
Original Music Composer
(1974)
Voyage to Next
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Date with Dizzy
Music
(1958)
(1953)
Things to Come
Music