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5. Jan. 2024 · Published Jan. 5, 2024 Updated Jan. 11, 2024. Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in ...
28. Dez. 2023 · Dizzy Gillespie. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He began playing piano at the age of four and received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina.
21. Okt. 2023 · Dizzy Gillespie passed away on January 6, 1993, from cancer, having helped to change the face of both trumpet playing and jazz. Dizzy Gillepsie may have been the 'Clown Prince of Jazz,' but ...
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Dizzy Gillespie ( gɪˈlɛspi; * 21. Oktober 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina; † 6. Januar 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey; eigentlich John Birks Gillespie) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker ( Trompeter ), Komponist, Sänger, Arrangeur und Bandleader. Gillespie gehört neben Thelonious Monk und Charlie Parker zu den Wegbereitern des Bebop .
John Birks „Dizzy“ Gillespie wurde am 21. Oktober 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina, geboren. Gillespies Vater war ein Amateur-Bandleader, der, obwohl er bereits verstorben war, als Gillespie zehn Jahre alt war, seinem Sohn einige seiner ersten musikalischen Erfahrungen vermittelte. Gillespie begann mit vierzehn Jahren Trompete zu spielen, nachdem er sich kurzzeitig an der Posaune versucht ...
The late American jazz legend, Dizzy Gillespie, is awarded the Polar Music Prize 1993. The Award Committee’s motivation is as follows: Closely familiar with the origins and roots of jazz, and perceiving its fertile development out of a variety of musical cultures, Dizzy Gillespie came on the scene, almost half a century ago, as a revolutionary innovator.
3. Mai 2024 · Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was one of the seminal figures of the bebop movement. A noted composer, his songbook is a list of bebop’s greatest hits; ‘Salt Peanuts,’ ‘Woody ’n’ You,’ ‘Con Alma,’ ‘Groovin’ High,’ and ‘A Night in Tunisia’ all became jazz standards.
