Thursday 7 August 2008

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie   
Artist: Dizzy Gillespie

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Other
   



Discography:


Portrait of Duke Ellington   
 Portrait of Duke Ellington

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


The Champ   
 The Champ

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


The Final Recordings   
 The Final Recordings

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 6


Live at Carnegie Hall   
 Live at Carnegie Hall

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


Jazz Maturity....Where It's Coming Fro   
 Jazz Maturity....Where It's Coming Fro

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


Jazz Masters 10   
 Jazz Masters 10

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


To Bird With Love: Live at the Blue Note (Live)   
 To Bird With Love: Live at the Blue Note (Live)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7


Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall: Toronto May 1953   
 Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall: Toronto May 1953

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


Live at the Village Vanguard   
 Live at the Village Vanguard

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 3


At Newport   
 At Newport

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


Live at the Royal Festival Hall   
 Live at the Royal Festival Hall

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 1


Live Umbria   
 Live Umbria

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 2


Reunion Big Band   
 Reunion Big Band

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 6


Live at the Village Vanguard Disc 1   
 Live at the Village Vanguard Disc 1

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 4


Sextet   
 Sextet

   Year: 1953   
Tracks: 15


Summertime With Johnny Griffin   
 Summertime With Johnny Griffin

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


Ken Burns Jazz Series: Dizzy Gillespie   
 Ken Burns Jazz Series: Dizzy Gillespie

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


Impromptu   
 Impromptu

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


Dizzy Atmosphere   
 Dizzy Atmosphere

   Year:    
Tracks: 21


Cool Breeze   
 Cool Breeze

   Year:    
Tracks: 19


Birk's Works   
 Birk's Works

   Year:    
Tracks: 21


A Night in Tunisia   
 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