Dizzy Gillespie
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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
Credits
Olympic Gala (1984)
Actor
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Cool (—)
as Self
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990)
as Self
Música para Sempre (1980)
as Self
The Harlem Renaissance (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin (1993)
as Self - Musician, Trumpet
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992)
as Self (archive footage)
The Hole (1962)
as (voice)
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly (1967)
as Self
A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
as Self
The Last of the Blue Devils (1979)
as Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
The Hat (1964)
as The First Border Guard (voice)
Amazonia (1990)
as (voice)
Dizzy Gillespie (1964)
as Self
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar (1995)
as Self
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986)
as Self
Improvisation (2004)
as Self
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975 (1998)
as Self
The Beginnings of Bebop (1981)
as Self
El invierno en Lisboa (1991)
as Bill Swann
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation (1989)
as Self
Dizzy's Dream Band (1982)
as Self
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith (1966)
as Self
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70 (2006)
as Self
Date with Dizzy (1956)
as Self
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater (2011)
as Self
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong (2008)
as Self
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life (1990)
as Self
Didn't We Ramble On (1989)
as Narrator
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974 (1974)
as Self
A Family Circus Easter (1982)
as Easter Bunny (voice)
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best (2009)
as Self
The Cosmic Eye (1986)
as The Musicians
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985) (1985)
as Self
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970 (2022)
as Self - trompettiste
Jazz Club 2 (2022)
Actor
Jivin' in Bebop (1946)
as Self
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal (2002)
as Self
Voyage to Next (1974)
as Father Time (voice)
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba (1989)
as Self - Trumpet
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Is Our Religion (1972)
Actor
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way (1963)
as Self
Jazz: The Only Way of Life (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Brownie Speaks (2014)
as Self
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989)
as Self