Dizzy Gillespie

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Manteca 04:14 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 05:04 Tools
Groovin' High 02:41 Tools
All the Things You Are 08:11 Tools
Desafinado 03:33 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere 02:50 Tools
Salt Peanuts 03:16 Tools
Tin Tin Deo 10:56 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 05:44 Tools
Con Alma 05:03 Tools
Hot House 09:17 Tools
Good bait 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 03:00 Tools
Caravan 02:50 Tools
Groovin’ High 03:54 Tools
Anthropology 02:48 Tools
Things to come 00:00 Tools
Manteca (Funky Lowlives Remix) 06:54 Tools
Our delight 00:00 Tools
Blue 'n' Boogie 13:27 Tools
Night in Tunisia 05:08 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac 07:29 Tools
Matrix 04:06 Tools
Cool breeze 00:00 Tools
Emanon 03:08 Tools
Unicorn 06:47 Tools
Manteca - 1994 Remastered 02:28 Tools
Two bass hit 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme 03:16 Tools
One Note Samba 05:18 Tools
Birk's Works 09:36 Tools
Mas Que Nada 13:11 Tools
Bloomdido 03:26 Tools
The Champ 02:46 Tools
They Can't Take That Away from Me 05:30 Tools
The Eternal Triangle 14:18 Tools
School Days 07:05 Tools
Cubana Be 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
Kush 00:00 Tools
Stay on it 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Manteca Theme 00:00 Tools
Bang Bang 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 05:53 Tools
Tour De Force 10:55 Tools
Leap Frog 02:04 Tools
Chega De Saudade 00:00 Tools
Ool-Ya-Koo 00:00 Tools
Shaw 'nuff 00:00 Tools
Fiesta Mojo 03:57 Tools
Summertime 04:16 Tools
It's The Talk Of The Town 00:00 Tools
Cocktails for Two 00:00 Tools
Ow! 02:58 Tools
Ray's idea 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Bebop 12:49 Tools
Girl Of My Dreams 07:39 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Minor walk 00:00 Tools
Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Algo bueno 00:00 Tools
Dizzy's Blues 11:54 Tools
One bass hit 03:27 Tools
And Then She Stopped 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell 00:00 Tools
No More Blues 00:00 Tools
Oro, Incienso y Mirra 00:00 Tools
I Can´t Get Started 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
Oop-Pop-a-Da 03:16 Tools
Jungla 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 04:50 Tools
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Jitterbug Waltz 00:00 Tools
Pau De Arara 03:38 Tools
Doodlin' 06:08 Tools
My Heart Belongs to Daddy 00:00 Tools
Contraste 02:45 Tools
Cubana Bop 00:00 Tools
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Calidoscopico 05:07 Tools
Alligator 00:00 Tools
Manteca - Funky Lowlives Remix 00:00 Tools
Oop Bop Sh'Bam 00:00 Tools
November Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Manteca (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Pensativo 00:00 Tools
Long, Long Summer 00:00 Tools
Exuberante 00:00 Tools
Be-Bop 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man Rebop 00:00 Tools
The Last Stroke Of Midnight 00:00 Tools
I Waited For You 00:00 Tools
Africana 00:00 Tools
My Man 00:00 Tools
Blues For Max 00:00 Tools
Birks' Works 00:00 Tools
Free Ride 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
Fire Dance 00:00 Tools
Something In Your Smile 00:00 Tools
Rhumba-Finale 04:43 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Impromptu 00:00 Tools
Trumpet Blues 00:00 Tools
Dizzier and Dizzier 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know 00:00 Tools
Bye 00:00 Tools
Incantation 00:00 Tools
Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Manteca (The Funky Lowlives remix) 00:00 Tools
Wrong Number 00:00 Tools
Sugar Hips 00:00 Tools
Oop Bop Sh' Bam 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee 00:00 Tools
Ozone Madness 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 00:00 Tools
Jordu 04:13 Tools
Relaxing With Lee 00:00 Tools
Dark Eyes 00:00 Tools
Blue And Sentimental 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
Guarachi Guaro 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not 02:56 Tools
Blue Mood 00:00 Tools
Be bop 00:00 Tools
Alone Together 00:00 Tools
Night And Day 00:00 Tools
Hey Pete 00:00 Tools
Jambo 00:00 Tools
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town 00:00 Tools
Lover come back to me 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell - Incomplete 411-1 00:00 Tools
Perdido 07:48 Tools
That's Earl Brother 02:40 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Long Long Summer 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Umbrella Man 00:00 Tools
Duke's Last Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
Siboney 00:00 Tools
Disorder At the Border 00:00 Tools
Love Me or Leave Me 02:51 Tools
Love Poem For Donna 00:00 Tools
That's Earl, Brother 00:00 Tools
Birks Works 00:00 Tools
One Alone (Lonely One) 00:00 Tools
Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) 00:00 Tools
Pickin' the Cabbage 00:00 Tools
Let Me Outta Here 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac - Live At The Memory Lane, Los Angeles/1967 00:00 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Cadillac 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Barbados Carnival 00:00 Tools
Good Dues Blues 00:00 Tools
Dizzy's Business 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Boogie 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
Confirmation 00:00 Tools
High On A Cloud 00:00 Tools
Carioca 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy 00:00 Tools
That Old Black Magic 00:00 Tools
Coolie 00:00 Tools
Duff Capers 00:00 Tools
Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee 00:00 Tools
'Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
The Umbrella Man 00:00 Tools
Oop Bop Sh’Bam 03:00 Tools
Ool ya koo 00:00 Tools
Don't Try To Keep Up With The Joneses 00:00 Tools
Hurry Home 00:00 Tools
Trinidad, Hello 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit, No. 2 00:00 Tools
Blues After Dark 00:00 Tools
Owl 00:00 Tools
Time on My Hands 00:00 Tools
Moon Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Money Honey 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame 00:00 Tools
The Bluest Blues 00:00 Tools
Algo Bueno (Woody'n You) 00:00 Tools
Cognac Blues 00:00 Tools
Fiesta Mo-Jo 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog - Take 11 / Take 6 / Master 00:00 Tools
Blue 'N Boogie 00:00 Tools
Hot Mallets 00:00 Tools
Poor Joe 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
One Alone 00:00 Tools
Prelude 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
And Than She Stopped 00:00 Tools
I'm be boppin' too 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
Theme From The Cool World 00:00 Tools
Cubano Be 00:00 Tools
Mohawk 00:00 Tools
No More Blues (Chega De Saudade) 00:00 Tools
Blue Rhythm Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Briks' Works 00:00 Tools
Rumbola 00:00 Tools
Soul Kiss 00:00 Tools
Woody 'N' You 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
Cubano Bop 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 05:17 Tools
Closer 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens to Me 00:00 Tools
Anthropology (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
When I Grow Too Old to Dream 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow) 00:00 Tools
This Lovely Feeling 00:00 Tools
Rails 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
A Handful of Gimme 00:00 Tools
Trinidad, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Devil And The Flesh 00:00 Tools
Swedish Suite 00:00 Tools
The Pushers 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Wheatleigh Hall 00:00 Tools
Salt Penuts 00:00 Tools
Just One More Chance 00:00 Tools
Jessica's Day 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 00:00 Tools
Days Of Wine And Roses 02:18 Tools
The Very Thought Of You 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 00:00 Tools
Bonnie's Blues 00:00 Tools
Coney Island 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia - 2002 Remastered 00:00 Tools
My Man (Mon Homme) 00:00 Tools
Rich Cool 00:00 Tools
Samba 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
Always 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
Fickle Finger Of Fate 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunesia 07:51 Tools
We Love to Boogie 00:00 Tools
Ungawa 00:00 Tools
Panamericana 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gerardo Frisina Remix) 00:00 Tools
Slew Foot 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
Here It Is 00:00 Tools
For The Gypsies 00:00 Tools
Ooh - Shoo - Bee - Doo - Be 00:00 Tools
Taboo 00:00 Tools
Toccata 00:00 Tools
Woodyn' You 00:00 Tools
Interlude (A Night in Tunisia) 00:00 Tools
Break At The Beginning (Taking A Chance On Love) 00:00 Tools
Sabla Y Blu 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Never On Sunday 00:00 Tools
Lullaby In Rhythm 04:30 Tools
Walk On The Wild Side 07:13 Tools
Dirty Dude 00:00 Tools
Mrs Diz 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It 00:00 Tools
Yours and Mine 00:00 Tools
Seabreeze 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunesia 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Past 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac - Gerardo Frisina Remix 00:00 Tools
Afro Paris 00:00 Tools
I Couldn't Beat the Rap 02:54 Tools
Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be 00:00 Tools
The Mooche 00:00 Tools
Blues 00:00 Tools
Enter, Priest 00:00 Tools
Bopsie's Blues 00:00 Tools
Duke's Awakening 00:00 Tools
Annie's Dance 00:00 Tools
The Truth 00:00 Tools
Reminiscing 00:00 Tools
Shabozz 00:00 Tools
Shaw Nuff 00:00 Tools
Jump Did-Le Ba 00:00 Tools
Behind The Moonbeam 00:00 Tools
Oop Pop a Da 00:00 Tools
Oop-Pop-A-Da - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Groovin' for Nat 00:00 Tools
Groovin' High (Live) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Just Blues (One More Blues) 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Our Love Is Here to Stay 00:00 Tools
This Is The Way 00:00 Tools
On the Alamo 00:00 Tools
I Should Care 00:00 Tools
Mama's Blues (Mrs Dizzy Blues) 00:00 Tools
Caravan (DJ Smash's Smashish Remix) 05:03 Tools
Hey Pete! Le's Eat More Meat 00:00 Tools
The Day After 00:00 Tools
I'm Beboppin' Too 00:00 Tools
Street Music 00:00 Tools
Jalousie 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me 00:00 Tools
In a Mellow Tone 00:00 Tools
Oo Pop A Dah 00:00 Tools
Frelimo 00:00 Tools
My Reverie 00:00 Tools
A Night At Tony's 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
Smoke Signals 00:00 Tools
Lullaby In Rhythm (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Ow 00:00 Tools
I'm in a Mess 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not (Big Band) 00:00 Tools
Thinking of You 00:00 Tools
Russian Lullaby 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Things Ain't What They Used To Be 00:00 Tools
Manteca [Funky Lowlives Remix] 00:00 Tools
Duke On The Run 00:00 Tools
I Found a Million Dollar Baby 00:00 Tools
Sumphin' 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped 00:00 Tools
That's All 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Algo Bueno (Woody 'n' You) 00:00 Tools
Soul Time 00:00 Tools
Billie's Bounce 00:00 Tools
The Champ - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat 00:00 Tools
Oop-Pop-A-Dah 00:00 Tools
Pergunte Ao Joao (Ask John) 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love (Alternate 1) 00:00 Tools
Just by Myself 04:47 Tools
Ornithology 15:34 Tools
Oop-Bop-Sh'bam 00:00 Tools
Soul Mama 00:00 Tools
N'bani 00:00 Tools
Constantinople 00:00 Tools
Brother "K" 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit (Part 1) 02:54 Tools
Duke's Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Groovin High 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
I Cant Get Started 00:00 Tools
Moon River 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started / 'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Little John Special 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 00:00 Tools
Sweet Stuff 00:00 Tools
In The Land Of The Living Dead 00:00 Tools
If Love Is Trouble 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love (Alternate 2) 00:00 Tools
Rhumbop Concerto 00:00 Tools
Left Hand Corner 00:00 Tools
Things To Come (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Olinga 00:00 Tools
The Diamond Jubilee Blues 00:00 Tools
Carnival 00:00 Tools
Leap frog - take 5 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of the Leaves 00:00 Tools
Oop- Bop-Sh'Bam (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Too Much Weight 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 00:00 Tools
Caesar And Cleopatra Theme 00:00 Tools
Opening Theme 00:00 Tools
Begin The Beguine 00:00 Tools
Stablemates 00:00 Tools
Fine And Dandy 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit (Live) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Say Eh 00:00 Tools
Be Bop (Dizzy's Fingers) 00:00 Tools
Barcelona 00:00 Tools
Rutabaga Pie 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon 00:00 Tools
Cool Eyes 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Final Theme 00:00 Tools
Isthmus 00:00 Tools
For Hecklers Only 00:00 Tools
Theme From Exodus 00:00 Tools
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' With Lee 00:00 Tools
Coast to Coast 00:00 Tools
The Chains 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell - Alternate Take 3 00:00 Tools
Magic summer 00:00 Tools
The Heat's On 00:00 Tools
Lucretia's Theme 00:00 Tools
San Sebastian 00:00 Tools
Pop's Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Early Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Wee 00:00 Tools
More 00:00 Tools
Bill's Song 00:00 Tools
Haute Mon' 00:00 Tools
Cool Breeze (Live) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I'm Be Boppin' Too (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Algo Bueno (Woody 'n You) 00:00 Tools
'Bout To Wail 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Song 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere (Live) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia 00:00 Tools
Lisbon 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
If You Could See Me Now 00:00 Tools
Over The Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Slim's Jam 00:00 Tools
Tangorine 00:00 Tools
Upper Manhattan Medical Group 00:00 Tools
Manteca (Funky Lowlives Extended Mix) 00:00 Tools
Lady Bird 00:00 Tools
Theme From Picnic 00:00 Tools
Love Me, Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit - Part Two 00:00 Tools
Yo No Quiero Bailar 00:00 Tools
I Cover The Waterfront 00:00 Tools
Magic Summer (Orchestral Version) 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
The Sword of Orion 00:00 Tools
Harlem Samba 00:00 Tools
Serenity 00:00 Tools
Dynamo A 00:00 Tools
Love Theme From Lolita 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 00:00 Tools
Magic Summer (Piano Version) 00:00 Tools
Sure Thing 00:00 Tools
Caravan (Master Take) 00:00 Tools
She's Gone Again 00:00 Tools
The Cup Bearers 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Ghost of a chance 00:00 Tools
Get To That 00:00 Tools
I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store - (mstr. take) 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Jubelo 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Burma 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Summer Samba (Samba De Verao) 00:00 Tools
Azure Blue 00:00 Tools
Just One Of Those Things 00:00 Tools
Pretty Eyed Baby 00:00 Tools
I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store) 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You 00:00 Tools
Diggin' for Diz 00:00 Tools
Party Man 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Every Mornin' 00:00 Tools
Anthropology (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Thing To Come 00:00 Tools
Rio Pakistan 00:00 Tools
TinTin Deo (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Serenade to Sweden 00:00 Tools
Salt Peanuts (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Siboney, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Joogie Boogie 00:00 Tools
Tangerine 00:00 Tools
Evil Gal Blues 00:00 Tools
What is There to Say? 00:00 Tools
Birk's Works (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows the Trouble 00:00 Tools
Blue & Sentimental 00:00 Tools
Blue Mist 00:00 Tools
Horn of Plenty 00:00 Tools
Star Dust (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Found A Million Dollar Baby (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Groovin' High (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Oop-Pop-A-Da (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Mon Homme 00:00 Tools
Gettin' Down 00:00 Tools
Evening Sound 00:00 Tools
Lover Man (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Oo Pa Pa Da 00:00 Tools
Good Bait (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blue n' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Flamingo 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Wee (Allen's Alley) 00:00 Tools
Hot House (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Ballade 00:00 Tools
'S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Man Rebop 00:00 Tools
Lullaby Of Birdland 02:34 Tools
´Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Jump Di-Le-Ba 00:00 Tools
I Stay in the Mood for You 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
Jump-Did-Le-Ba 00:00 Tools
The Champ Parts 1 & 2 00:00 Tools
Cubana Be (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Manha De Carnaval 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Diggin' Diz 00:00 Tools
Siboney, Part 1 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Kusch 00:00 Tools
Selections From "Zodiac Suite" 00:00 Tools
Daahoud 00:00 Tools
Fantasia 00:00 Tools
On The Sunnyside Of The Street 00:00 Tools
Ol´ Man Rebop 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme (1994 Remastered - Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Anthropology (1994 Remastered - Take 1) 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Moody Speaks 00:00 Tools
Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Tunisian Fantasy 00:00 Tools
The Champ Parts 1 &2 (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Darben the Redd Foxx 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
Stay On It (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia (arr. for string quartet and orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet 00:00 Tools
Smokey Hollow Jump 00:00 Tools
Ding-A-Ling 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia (Incomplete Take) 00:00 Tools
Getting Down 00:00 Tools
Anthropology [Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Two Bass Hit (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Overtime 00:00 Tools
Squatty Roo 00:00 Tools
Me 'N Them 00:00 Tools
Woody'n You 00:00 Tools
Boppin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia (Live) 00:00 Tools
Early Mornin' Blues 00:00 Tools
One Note Sam 00:00 Tools
Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started/'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Study in Soulphony 00:00 Tools
Bass-Ically Speaking 00:00 Tools
Mayflower Rock 00:00 Tools
Dynamo A (Dizzy Atmosphere) 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
The Shadow Of Your Smile 00:00 Tools
Shim Sham Shimmy On The St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
The Theme 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix) 00:00 Tools
Congo Blues 00:00 Tools
(I've Got) The Bluest Blues 00:00 Tools
Ool-Ya-Koo (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know Why 00:00 Tools
Medley: I Can't Get Started/ 'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Night in Tunisia - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Dizzier and Dizzier (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Cabana Bop 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
Ko ko 00:00 Tools
Stomped and Wasted 00:00 Tools
Blomdido 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love - (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Johnny Come Lately 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme (1994 Remastered - Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Cup Bearers 00:00 Tools
Goin' Fishin' 00:00 Tools
Anythin' 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell - Incomplete 411-2 00:00 Tools
Pele 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Atmosphere - ;1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Take The 'A' Train 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Girl of My Dream 00:00 Tools
Tenor Song 00:00 Tools
You'll Be Sorry 00:00 Tools
Jump Did-Le Ba (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Yesterday's Dream 00:00 Tools
I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store - (alt. take) 00:00 Tools
Just Friends 00:00 Tools
Victory Ball (shorter take) 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
He beeped when he shoulda bopped 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog - Take 10 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac - Live At Memory Lane, Los Angeles, 1967 00:00 Tools
Manteca - Live 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Blue'N'Boogie 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love - (take 3) 00:00 Tools
Relaxing With Lee - Take 4 / Take 2 / Alternate 00:00 Tools
Ballad 00:00 Tools
Dizzy's Party 00:00 Tools
Anthropology - Remastered 2002 00:00 Tools
Oopapada 00:00 Tools
Jealousie 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love - (take 4) 00:00 Tools
An Oscar For Treadwell - Take 4 Master 00:00 Tools
Roses Of Picardy 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man Rebop (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) 00:00 Tools
Ten Lessons With Timothy 00:00 Tools
Purple Sounds 00:00 Tools
Guarachi Guard 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Cubana Re 00:00 Tools
Where's Adam? 00:00 Tools
Confusion 00:00 Tools
Christopher Columbus 00:00 Tools
Minor Walk (1994 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Morning of the carnival 00:00 Tools
Pushers 00:00 Tools
Theme From Formula 409 Part 1 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia (1994 Remastered - Incomplete Take) 00:00 Tools
52nd Street Theme [take 2] 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows 00:00 Tools
Manteca (Live) 00:00 Tools
Victory Ball 00:00 Tools
Oop- Bop-Sh'Bam 00:00 Tools
Theme From Formula 409 Part 2 00:00 Tools
Me-da-um Dinheiro Ahi (Give Me Some Money There) 00:00 Tools
Theme 00:00 Tools
Chega De Sau 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
I'm Be Boppin' Too [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
The Conquerors 00:00 Tools
Caravan - Master Take 00:00 Tools
I'm Be Boppin' Too (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Groovin' High - Live;1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Pop's Confessin 00:00 Tools
Three Hearts in a Tangle 00:00 Tools
Bang! Bang! 00:00 Tools
The Windmills of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Kerouac 00:00 Tools
Jam Session No.1 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog - Take 8 / Take 4 / Alternate 00:00 Tools
Jump Did-le-ba 00:00 Tools
Selections From Zodiac Suite 00:00 Tools
Medley:This Is The Way/Untitled Dizzy Original/Cubano-Be/I Waited For You 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hey, Pete 00:00 Tools
Frisco 00:00 Tools
Afro-Cuban Drum Suite 00:00 Tools
Good Bait - 2001 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Land Of Milk And Honey 00:00 Tools
Ann, Wonderful One 00:00 Tools
I Think That Maybe I Should Go Away 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown - Live (1946/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles) 00:00 Tools
Oo-La-La 00:00 Tools
Stay On It - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
You Stole My Wife, You Horsethief 00:00 Tools
Katy 00:00 Tools
Anthropology (Take 1) - Take 1 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know (feat. Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins) 00:00 Tools
I Shall Never Forget 00:00 Tools
Swwet And Lovely 00:00 Tools
Man From Monterey 00:00 Tools
Say When 00:00 Tools
Victory Ball (longer take) 00:00 Tools
Once in a Lovetime 00:00 Tools
Raleaxin' With Lee 00:00 Tools
O Solow 00:00 Tools
Cubana Be, Cubana Bop 00:00 Tools
Birk's Work 00:00 Tools
Can You Recall? 00:00 Tools
I'm Beboppin' Too (1994 Remastered - Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Chorale 00:00 Tools
Mount Olive 00:00 Tools
Hey Pete! Le's Eat More Meat 00:00 Tools
Swwet And Lovely 1 (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Caravan (Master Take) 00:00 Tools
Tin Tin Daeo 00:00 Tools
Overtime (longer take) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Two Bass Hit - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Get Back 00:00 Tools
Overtime (shorter take) 00:00 Tools
Leap Frog - Take 9 / Complete 00:00 Tools
Lover Man (King Britt's Speakeasy Mix) 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Stree 00:00 Tools
My Cherie Amour 00:00 Tools
Swwet And Lovely 2 (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Shaw'nuff 00:00 Tools
Could it be you 00:00 Tools
Ool-Ya-Koo - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Tango-Rine 00:00 Tools
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My funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
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It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
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Salt Peanuts (Live) 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun 00:00 Tools
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Things to Love 00:00 Tools
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All These Things You Are 00:00 Tools
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I Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
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Carioca (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Night in Tunisia [Incomplete Take] 00:00 Tools
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That Old Black Magic - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Hot House (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Almost Like Being In Love 00:00 Tools
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Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man Bebop 00:00 Tools
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I CAN'T GET STARTED/ 'ROUND MIDNIGHT -medley 00:00 Tools
Night And Day (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
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Fifty Second Street Theme 00:00 Tools
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Don't Wear No Black 00:00 Tools
Berks Works 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues 00:00 Tools
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In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Dizzy Gillespie World Statesman: My Reverie 00:00 Tools
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These Are The Things I Love 00:00 Tools
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Dizzy The Duck 00:00 Tools
After Hours (Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Half Nelson 00:00 Tools
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One Bass Hit, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
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Stairway To The Stars 00:00 Tools
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I See a Million People 00:00 Tools
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Jumpin With Symphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Hey Pete, Le's Eat Mo' Meat 00:00 Tools
Unicorn (Original 12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
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Woody 'N You 00:00 Tools
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Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac [Gerardo Frisina Remix] 00:00 Tools
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Shaw' Nuff 00:00 Tools
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Hey Pete Let's Eat More Meat! 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow) - Live At The Memory Lane, Los Angeles/1967 00:00 Tools
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Something for You 00:00 Tools
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Dizzy Song (Lady Bird) 00:00 Tools
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Clappin' Rhythm 00:00 Tools
One Bass Hit [No. 2] 00:00 Tools
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Chicken Giblets 00:00 Tools
No More Blues (Chega De Saudade) [Live] 00:00 Tools
They Can't Take Away From Me 00:00 Tools
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Why Do I Love You? 00:00 Tools
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I Can't Get Started - 'Round Midnight -Medley 00:00 Tools
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First Chance 00:00 Tools
2nd Street Theme 00:00 Tools
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Mean to Me 00:00 Tools
Sippin at Bells 00:00 Tools
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Watch Out 00:00 Tools
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Minor Walk - 1994 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Textures 00:00 Tools
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"Be Bop" 00:00 Tools
A Hand Fulla Gimmie 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Gillespie World Statesman: Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
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Dizzy Atmosphare 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (feat. Johnny Richards Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Birks' 00:00 Tools
Budo 00:00 Tools
Kok 00:00 Tools
Matrix (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
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I'm Confessin' 00:00 Tools
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Israel 00:00 Tools
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Somebody Loves My Baby 00:00 Tools
You're No. 1-In My Book 00:00 Tools
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Love Me. Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
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What's New? 00:00 Tools
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Dizzy Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. In the 1940s Gillespie, together 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, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and Arturo Sandoval a.o.. Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA the youngest of nine children of James and Lottie Gillespie. James was a local bandleader, so instruments were made available to Dizzy. He started to play the piano at the age of four (1921). Gillespie's father died when the boy was only ten years old. Gillespie taught himself how to play the trombone as well as the trumpet by the age of twelve. From the night he heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, play on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina, which he attended for two years before accompanying his family when they moved to Philadelphia. Gillespie's first professional job was with the Frank Fairfax Orchestra in 1935, after which he joined the respective orchestras of Edgar Hayes and Teddy Hill, essentially replacing Roy Eldridge as first trumpet in 1937. Teddy Hill’s band was where Gillespie made his first recording, "King Porter Stomp". In August 1937 while gigging with Hayes in Washington D.C., Dizzy met a young dancer named Lorraine Willis who worked a Baltimore–Philadelphia–New York circuit which included the Apollo Theatre. Willis was not immediately friendly but Gillespie was attracted anyway. The two finally married on May 9, 1940. They remained married until his death in 1993. Dizzy stayed with Teddy Hill’s band for a year, then left and free-lanced with numerous other bands. In 1939, Gillespie joined Cab Calloway's orchestra, with which he recorded one of his earliest compositions, the instrumental "Pickin' the Cabbage", in 1940. (Originally released on Paradiddle, a 78rpm backed with a co-composition with Cozy Cole, Calloway's drummer at the time, on the Vocalion label, No. 5467). Dizzy was fired by Calloway in late 1941, after a notorious altercation between the two. The incident is recounted by Gillespie, along with fellow Calloway band members Milt Hinton and Jonah Jones, in Jean Bach's 1997 film, The Spitball Story. Calloway did not approve of Gillespie's mischievous humor, nor of his adventuresome approach to soloing; according to Jones, Calloway referred to it as “Chinese music”. During one performance, Calloway saw a spitball land on the stage, and accused Gillespie of having thrown it. Dizzy denied it, and the ensuing argument led to Calloway striking Gillespie, who then pulled out a switchblade knife and charged Calloway. The two were separated by other band members, during which scuffle Calloway was cut on the hand. During his time in Calloway's band, Gillespie started writing big band music for bandleaders like Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. He then freelanced with a few bands – most notably Ella Fitzgerald's orchestra, composed of members of the late Chick Webb's band, in 1942. In 1943, Gillespie joined the Earl Hines band. Composer Gunther Schuller said: ... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians. They were playing all the flatted fifth chords and all the modern harmonies and substitutions and Gillespie runs in the trumpet section work. Two years later I read that that was 'bop' and the beginning of modern jazz ... but the band never made recordings. Gillespie said of the Hines band, "People talk about the Hines band being 'the incubator of bop' and the leading exponents of that music ended up in the Hines band. But people also have the erroneous impression that the music was new. It was not. The music evolved from what went before. It was the same basic music. The difference was in how you got from here to here to here ... naturally each age has got its own shit". Next, Gillespie joined Billy Eckstine's (Earl Hines' long-time collaborator) big band and it was as a member of Eckstine's band that he was reunited with Charlie Parker, a fellow member of Hines's band. In 1945, Gillespie left Eckstine's band because he wanted to play with a small combo. A "small combo" typically comprised no more than five musicians, playing the trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass and drums. The rise of bebop Bebop was known as the first modern jazz style. However, it was unpopular in the beginning and was not viewed as positively as swing music was. Bebop was seen as an outgrowth of swing, not a revolution. Swing introduced a diversity of new musicians in the bebop era like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Oscar Pettiford, and Gillespie. Through these musicians, a new vocabulary of musical phrases was created. With Charlie Parker, Gillespie jammed at famous jazz clubs like Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's Uptown House. Charlie Parker's system also held methods of adding chords to existing chord progressions and implying additional chords within the improvised lines. Gillespie compositions like "Groovin' High", "Woody n' You" and "Salt Peanuts" sounded radically different, harmonically and rhythmically, from the swing music popular at the time. "A Night in Tunisia", written in 1942, while Gillespie was playing with Earl Hines' band, is noted for having a feature that is common in today's music, a non-walking bass line. The song also displays Afro-Cuban rhythms. One of their first small-group performances together was only issued in 2005: a concert in New York's Town Hall on June 22, 1945. Gillespie taught many of the young musicians on 52nd Street, including Miles Davis and Max Roach, about the new style of jazz. After a lengthy gig at Billy Berg's club in Los Angeles, which left most of the audience ambivalent or hostile towards the new music, the band broke up. Unlike Parker, who was content to play in small groups and be an occasional featured soloist in big bands, Gillespie aimed to lead a big band himself; his first, unsuccessful, attempt to do this was in 1945. After his work with Parker, Gillespie led other small combos (including ones with Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Lalo Schifrin, Ray Brown, Kenny Clarke, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, and Yusef Lateef) and finally put together his first successful big band. Gillespie and his band tried to popularize bop and make Gillespie a symbol of the new music. He also appeared frequently as a soloist with Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic. He also headlined the 1946 independently-produced musical revue film Jivin' in Be-Bop. In 1948 Gillespie was involved in a traffic accident when the bicycle he was riding was bumped by an automobile. He was slightly injured, and found that he could no longer hit the B-flat above high C. He won the case, but the jury awarded him only $1000, in view of his high earnings up to that point. In 1956 he organized a band to go on a State Department tour of the Middle East which was extremely well received internationally and earned him the nickname "the Ambassador of Jazz". During this time, he also continued to lead a big band that performed throughout the United States and featured musicians including Pee Wee Moore and others. This band recorded a live album at the 1957 Newport jazz festival that featured Mary Lou Williams as a guest artist on piano. Afro-Cuban music In the late 1940s, Gillespie was also involved in the movement called Afro-Cuban music, bringing Afro-Latin American music and elements to greater prominence in jazz and even pop music, particularly salsa. Afro-Cuban jazz is based on traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms. Gillespie was introduced to Chano Pozo in 1947 by Mario Bauza, a Latin jazz trumpet player. Chano Pozo became Gillespie's conga drummer for his band. Gillespie also worked with Mario Bauza in New York jazz clubs on 52nd Street and several famous dance clubs such as Palladium and the Apollo Theater in Harlem. They played together in the Chick Webb band and Cab Calloway's band, where Gillespie and Bauza became lifelong friends. Gillespie helped develop and mature the Afro-Cuban jazz style. Afro-Cuban jazz was considered bebop-oriented, and some musicians classified it as a modern style. Afro-Cuban jazz was successful because it never decreased in popularity and it always attracted people to dance to its unique rhythms. Gillespie's most famous contributions to Afro-Cuban music are the compositions "Manteca" and "Tin Tin Deo" (both co-written with Chano Pozo); he was responsible for commissioning George Russell's "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", which featured the great but ill-fated Cuban conga player, Chano Pozo. In 1977, Gillespie discovered Arturo Sandoval while researching music during a tour of Cuba. Later years His biographer Alyn Shipton quotes Don Waterhouse approvingly that Gillespie in the fifties "had begun to mellow into an amalgam of his entire jazz experience to form the basis of new classicism". Another opinion is that, unlike his contemporary Miles Davis, Gillespie essentially remained true to the bebop style for the rest of his career. In 1960, he was inducted into the Down Beat magazine's Jazz Hall of Fame. During the 1964 United States presidential campaign the artist, with tongue in cheek, put himself forward as an independent write-in candidate. He promised that if he were elected, the White House would be renamed "The Blues House," and a cabinet composed of Duke Ellington (Secretary of State), Miles Davis (Director of the CIA), Max Roach (Secretary of Defense), Charles Mingus (Secretary of Peace), Ray Charles (Librarian of Congress), Louis Armstrong (Secretary of Agriculture), Mary Lou Williams (Ambassador to the Vatican), Thelonious Monk (Travelling Ambassador) and Malcolm X (Attorney General). He said his running mate would be Phyllis Diller. Campaign buttons had been manufactured years ago by Gillespie's booking agency "for publicity, as a gag", but now proceeds from them went to benefit the Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.; in later years they became a collector's item. In 1971 Gillespie announced he would run again but withdrew before the election for reasons connected to the Bahá'í Faith. Gillespie published his autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, in 1979. Gillespie was a vocal fixture in many of John Hubley and Faith Hubley's animated films, such as The Hole, The Hat, and Voyage to Next. In the 1980s, Gillespie led the United Nation Orchestra. For three years Flora Purim toured with the Orchestra and she credits Gillespie with evolving her understanding of jazz after being in the field for over two decades. David Sánchez also toured with the group and was also greatly influenced by Gillespie. Both artists later were nominated for Grammy awards. Gillespie also had a guest appearance on The Cosby Show as well as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. In 1982, Gillespie had a cameo appearance on Stevie Wonder's hit "Do I Do". Gillespie's tone gradually faded in the last years in life, and his performances often focused more on his proteges such as Arturo Sandoval and Jon Faddis; his good-humoured comedic routines became more and more a part of his live act. In 1988, Gillespie had worked with Canadian flautist and saxophonist Moe Koffman on their prestigious album Oo Pop a Da. He did fast scat vocals on the title track and a couple of the other tracks were played only on trumpet. In 1989 Gillespie gave 300 performances in 27 countries, appeared in 100 U.S. cities in 31 states and the District of Columbia, headlined three television specials, performed with two symphonies, and recorded four albums. He was also crowned a traditional chief in Nigeria, received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; France's most prestigious cultural award. He was named Regent Professor by the University of California, and received his fourteenth honorary doctoral degree, this one from the Berklee College of Music. In addition, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award the same year. The next year, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ceremonies celebrating the centennial of American jazz, Gillespie received the Kennedy Center Honors Award and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Duke Ellington Award for 50 years of achievement as a composer, performer, and bandleader. In 1993 he received the Polar Music Prize in Sweden. November 26, 1992 at Carnegie Hall in New York, following the Second Bahá'í World Congress was Gillespie's 75th birthday concert and his offering to the celebration of the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh. Gillespie was to appear at Carnegie Hall for the 33rd time. The line-up included: Jon Faddis, Marvin "Doc" Holladay, James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and the Mike Longo Trio with Ben Brown on bass and Mickey Roker on drums. But Gillespie didn't make it because he was in bed suffering from cancer of the pancreas. "But the musicians played their real hearts out for him, no doubt suspecting that he would not play again. Each musician gave tribute to their friend, this great soul and innovator in the world of jazz." Gillespie also starred in a film called The Winter in Lisbon released in 2004. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood section of the City of Los Angeles. He is honored by the December 31, 2006 – A Jazz New Year's Eve: Freddy Cole & the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A longtime resident of Englewood, New Jersey, he died of pancreatic cancer January 6, 1993, aged 75, and was buried in the Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York. Mike Longo delivered a eulogy at his funeral. He was also with Gillespie on the night he died, along with Jon Faddis and a select few others. At the time of his death, Gillespie was survived by his widow, Lorraine Willis Gillespie; a daughter, jazz singer Jeanie Bryson; and a grandson, Radji Birks Bryson-Barrett. Gillespie had two funerals. One was a Bahá'í funeral at his request, at which his closest friends and colleagues attended. The second was at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York open to the public. Gillespie, a Bahá'í since 1970, was one of the most famous adherents of the Bahá'í Faith which helped him make sense of his position in a succession of trumpeters as well as turning his life from knife-carrying roughneck to global citizen, and from alcohol to soul force, in the words of author Nat Hentoff, who knew Gillespie for forty years. He spoke about the Baha'i Faith frequently on his trips abroad. He is often called the Bahá'í Jazz Ambassador. He is honored with weekly jazz sessions at the New York Bahá'í Center in the memorial auditorium. As a tribute to him, DJ Qualls' character in the 2002 American teen comedy film, The New Guy, was named Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. The Marvel Comics current Hawkeye comic written by Matt Fraction features Gillespie's music in a section of the editorials called the "Hawkguy Playlist". Also, Dwight Morrow High School, the public high school of Englewood, New Jersey, renamed their auditorium, the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium, in memory of him. Gillespie has been described as the "Sound of Surprise". The Rough Guide to Jazz describes his musical style: The whole essence of a Gillespie solo was cliff-hanging suspense: the phrases and the angle of the approach were perpetually varied, breakneck runs were followed by pauses, by huge interval leaps, by long, immensely high notes, by slurs and smears and bluesy phrases; he always took listeners by surprise, always shocking them with a new thought. His lightning reflexes and superb ear meant his instrumental execution matched his thoughts in its power and speed. And he was concerned at all times with swing—even taking the most daring liberties with pulse or beat, his phrases never failed to swing. Gillespies’s magnificent sense of time and emotional intensity of his playing came from childhood roots. His parents were Methodists, but as a boy he used to sneak off every Sunday to the uninhibited Sanctified Church. He said later, ‘The Sanctified Church had deep significance for me musically. I first learned the significance of rhythm there and all about how music can transport people spiritually.'" In Gillespie's obituary, Peter Watrous describes his performance style: In the naturally effervescent Mr. Gillespie, opposites existed. His playing—and he performed constantly until nearly the end of his life—was meteoric, full of virtuosic invention and deadly serious. But with his endlessly funny asides, his huge variety of facial expressions and his natural comic gifts, he was as much a pure entertainer as an accomplished artist." Wynton Marsalis summed up Gillespie as a player and teacher: His playing showcases the importance of intelligence. His rhythmic sophistication was unequaled. He was a master of harmony—and fascinated with studying it. He took in all the music of his youth—from Roy Eldridge to Duke Ellington—and developed a unique style built on complex rhythm and harmony balanced by wit. Gillespie was so quick-minded, he could create an endless flow of ideas at unusually fast tempo. Nobody had ever even considered playing a trumpet that way, let alone had actually tried. All the musicians respected him because, in addition to outplaying everyone, he knew so much and was so generous with that knowledge..." Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "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'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." "Bent" trumpet Gillespie's trademark trumpet featured a bell which bent upward at a 45-degree angle rather than pointing straight ahead as in the conventional design. According to Gillespie's autobiography, this was originally the result of accidental damage caused by the dancers Stump and Stumpy falling onto it while it was on a trumpet stand on stage at Snookie's in Manhattan on January 6, 1953, during a birthday party for Gillespie's wife Lorraine. The constriction caused by the bending altered the tone of the instrument, and Gillespie liked the effect. He had the trumpet straightened out the next day, but he could not forget the tone. Gillespie sent a request to Martin Committee to make him a "bent" trumpet from a sketch produced by Lorraine, and from that time forward Gillespie played a trumpet with an upturned bell. Gillespie's biographer Alyn Shipton writes that Gillespie probably got the idea for a bent trumpet when he saw a similar instrument in 1937 in Manchester, England, while on tour with the Teddy Hill Orchestra. According to this account (from British journalist Pat Brand) Gillespie was able to try out the horn and the experience led him, much later, to commission a similar horn for himself. Whatever the origins of Gillespie's upswept trumpet, by June 1954, he was using a professionally manufactured horn of this design, and it was to become a visual trademark for him for the rest of his life. Such trumpets were made for him by Martin (from 1954), King Musical Instruments (from 1972) and Renold Schilke (from 1982, a gift from Jon Faddis). Gillespie favored mouthpieces made by Al Cass. In December 1986 Gillespie gave the National Museum of American History his 1972 King "Silver Flair" trumpet with a Cass mouthpiece. In April 1995, Gillespie's Martin trumpet was auctioned at Christie's in New York City, along with instruments used by other famous musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley. An image of Gillespie's trumpet was selected for the cover of the auction program. The battered instrument sold to Manhattan builder Jeffery Brown for $63,000, the proceeds benefiting jazz musicians suffering from cancer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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