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About Dizzy Gillespie

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Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was an enthusia... Read More

Influences on Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge

Followers of Dizzy Gillespie

Burt Bacharach, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Mose Allison, Hugh Masekela, Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Benny Bailey, Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Clifford Brown, and Art Farmer

Fans of Dizzy Gillespie

*Chris

Kailua, Hi

19 plays

erininnis

Dacula, Ga

15 plays

reereetuftuf

Houston, Tx

13 plays

Brendan

Portland, Or

12 plays

COPERNICUS

Gunnison, Co

11 plays

ggrider

Santa Monica, Ca

11 plays

Comments about Dizzy Gillespie

bajes2009

Amman Jordan

Sunday February 14 2010 11:52 PM

“ fantastic&lovely ”

AMOR

Rotterdam Netherl…

Thursday January 28 2010 01:49 PM

“ Que maravilha!!!!!! ”

loveistruth

Mauritius

Monday October 26 2009 12:51 AM

“ incontournable ”

MrLuisNina

Santiago Chile

Friday August 14 2009 08:29 PM

“ !! Bravo Maestro !! ”

Jakomoe

Mannheim Germany

Sunday August 02 2009 12:21 PM

“ If you can't get to the point of Dizzy's sound then I feel for you but,I sure can't reach you. The man is and will always be the great and I mean great trumpet man for me. Thank you so much Mr. Gillespie. ”

Marina Fatiane

Goiânia Brazil

Sunday March 01 2009 10:23 AM

“ huhauhaudhuafhudhfuhdf ”

roche3514

Manchester, Nh

Sunday February 22 2009 02:07 PM

“ Dizzy, was not born in North Carolina.It was Cheraw SC. The blow fish. its a big apartment complex named after him their.its called Dizzy Gillespie apartments.His house is still standing on the south end of the complex.so wher did blues come from again? ”