Dizzy Gillespie
Known for: Acting
Born: October 21, 1917
Died: January 6, 1993
Place of birth: Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
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
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Filmography
60 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
7.7
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
NR
A Supermarket in California
2024
10.0
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
2023
NR
Jazz Club 2
2022
NR
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
2022
6.8
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
2022
7.4
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
6.9
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
8.3
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
2019
7.1
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
9.0
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018
7.0
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
10.0
Brownie Speaks
2014
NR
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014
7.0
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012NR
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
2011NR
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
2009
8.5
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
2008
NR
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
2006
6.0
The Harlem Renaissance
2004
NR
Improvisation
20045.0
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
2002
NR
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
1998
8.0
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
1995
6.6
A Great Day in Harlem
1994
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Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
19935.2
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992
4.7
El invierno en Lisboa
1991
9.0
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
1990
9.0
Amazonia
1990NR
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
1990
NR
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
1989
8.5
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
1989
NR
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
1989
NR
Didn't We Ramble On
1989NR
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
1986
6.3
The Cosmic Eye
1986
NR
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
1985
7.0
The Cosby Show
1984NR
Olympic Gala
1984
6.8
Hello
1984NR
Bei Bio
1983
8.5
A Family Circus Easter
1982NR
Dizzy's Dream Band
1982
NR
The Beginnings of Bebop
19818.0
Música para Sempre
1980
8.0
The Last of the Blue Devils
197910.0
Second Chance: Sea
1977
8.0
The Muppet Show
1976
NR
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
1974
5.3
Voyage to Next
1974
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
10.0
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972
6.1
Great Performances
1971
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968NR
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
19679.0
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
19669.0
The Hat
1964
7.0
Dizzy Gillespie
1964NR
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
1963
5.9
The Hole
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
9.0
Jazz Casual
1961NR
A Smattering of Spots
1958
4.8
Date with Dizzy
1956
NR
Things to Come
1953
6.5
Jivin' in Bebop
1946NR
Cool
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What's Happening
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