Dizzy Gillespie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 21, 1917
- Died
- January 6, 1993 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
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". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Filmography
Cool
Movie · as Self
What's Happening
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
Movie · as Self - trompettiste
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Club 2
Movie
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie · as Self - Musician (archive footage)
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Jazz Ambassadors
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Brownie Speaks
Movie · as Self
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
Movie · as Self
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
Movie · as Self
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
Movie · as Self
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
Movie · as Self
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Improvisation
Movie · as Self
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
Movie · as Self
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
Movie · as Self
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
Movie · as Self
A Great Day in Harlem
Movie · as Self
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
Movie · as Self - Musician, Trumpet
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
El invierno en Lisboa
Movie · as Bill Swann
Amazonia
Movie · as (voice)
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
Movie · as Self
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Movie · as Self
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Movie · as Self
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
Movie · as Self
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Movie · as Self - Trumpet
Didn't We Ramble On
Movie · as Narrator
The Cosmic Eye
Movie · as The Musicians
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
Movie · as Self
Music in Monk Time
Movie · as Self
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
Movie · as Self
Olympic Gala
Movie
The Cosby Show
TV · as Mr. Hampton · 1 ep
Bei Bio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Family Circus Easter
Movie · as Easter Bunny (voice)
Dizzy's Dream Band
Movie · as Self
The Beginnings of Bebop
Movie · as Self
Música para Sempre
Movie · as Self
The Last of the Blue Devils
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Muppet Show
TV · as Self - Special Guest Star · 1 ep
Voyage to Next
Movie · as Father Time (voice)
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
Movie · as Self
Jazz Is Our Religion
Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
Movie · as Self
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
Movie · as Self
The Hat
Movie · as The First Border Guard (voice)
Dizzy Gillespie
Movie · as Self
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
Movie · as Self
The Hole
Movie · as (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Jazz Casual
TV · as Self - Trumpet · 1 ep
Date with Dizzy
Movie · as Self
Jivin' in Be-Bop
Movie · as Self