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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

Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge

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