Thursday 7 August 2008
Dizzy Gillespie
Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Genre(s):
Jazz
Other
Discography:
Portrait of Duke Ellington
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
The Champ
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Final Recordings
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Live at Carnegie Hall
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Jazz Maturity....Where It's Coming Fro
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
Jazz Masters 10
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
To Bird With Love: Live at the Blue Note (Live)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall: Toronto May 1953
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Live at the Village Vanguard
Year: 1992
Tracks: 3
At Newport
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Year: 1987
Tracks: 1
Live Umbria
Year: 1976
Tracks: 2
Reunion Big Band
Year: 1968
Tracks: 6
Live at the Village Vanguard Disc 1
Year: 1967
Tracks: 4
Sextet
Year: 1953
Tracks: 15
Summertime With Johnny Griffin
Year:
Tracks: 6
Ken Burns Jazz Series: Dizzy Gillespie
Year:
Tracks: 16
Impromptu
Year:
Tracks: 12
Dizzy Atmosphere
Year:
Tracks: 21
Cool Breeze
Year:
Tracks: 19
Birk's Works
Year:
Tracks: 21
A Night in Tunisia
Year:
Tracks: 13
Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were vast. One of the superlative jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the topper), Gillespie was such a building complex actor that his contemporaries over up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro rather, and it was not until Jon Faddis' issue in the mid-seventies that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could PLC280% and Liston) contributed some of the arrangements. After the orchestra bust up, Gillespie went game to preeminent small groups, featuring such sidemen in the 1960s as Junior Mance, Leo Wright, Lalo Schifrin, James Moody, and Kenny Barron. He maintained his popularity, at multiplication headed especially assembled big bands, and was a fixture at jazz festivals. In the early '70s, Gillespie toured with the Giants of Jazz and around that time his trumpet