Dizzy Gillespie
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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
Known for
Credits
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992)
as Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974 (1974)
as Self
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way (1963)
as Self
The Hat (1964)
as The First Border Guard (voice)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
as Self
Música para Sempre (1980)
as Self
Dizzy Gillespie (1964)
as Self
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life (1990)
as Self
Jazz Is Our Religion (1972)
Actor
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990)
as Self
The Hole (1962)
as (voice)
The Music According to Tom Jobim (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly (1967)
as Self
The Cosmic Eye (1986)
as The Musicians
Amazonia (1990)
as (voice)
The Last of the Blue Devils (1979)
as Self (archive footage)
Voyage to Next (1974)
as Father Time (voice)
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar (1995)
as Self
Dizzy's Dream Band (1982)
as Self
Jazz Club 2 (2022)
Actor
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Cool (—)
as Self
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986)
as Self
Improvisation (2004)
as Self
El invierno en Lisboa (1991)
as Bill Swann
The Harlem Renaissance (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989)
as Self
Date with Dizzy (1956)
as Self
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best (2009)
as Self
The Beginnings of Bebop (1981)
as Self
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation (1989)
as Self
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater (2011)
as Self
A Family Circus Easter (1982)
as Easter Bunny (voice)
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985) (1985)
as Self
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975 (1998)
as Self
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970 (2022)
as Self - trompettiste
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal (2002)
as Self
Brownie Speaks (2014)
as Self
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70 (2006)
as Self
Jazz: The Only Way of Life (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong (2008)
as Self
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith (1966)
as Self
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba (1989)
as Self - Trumpet
Didn't We Ramble On (1989)
as Narrator
Jivin' in Bebop (1946)
as Self