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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 21, 1917
Died
January 6, 1993
Place of Birth
Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie
- John Birks Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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
7.6
Self (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
2023
0.0
Self - trompettiste
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
2022
6.8
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
2022
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
6.9
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020
8.3
Self (archive footage)
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
2019
7.2
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018
7.0
Self (archive footage)
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
Credits
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.6
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
as Self (archive footage)
2023
10.0
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
as Self - trompettiste
2022
0.0
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.8
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.5
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.9
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
as Self (archive footage)
2019
8.3
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
2019
7.2
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
2018
9.0
The Jazz Ambassadors
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.0
Brownie Speaks
as Self
2014
10.0
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
2012
7.0
🎬
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
as Self
2011
0.0
🎬
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
as Self
2009
0.0
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
as Self
2008
8.5
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
as Self
2006
0.0
The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)
2004
6.0
Improvisation
as Self
2004
0.0
🎬
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
as Self
2002
5.0
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
as Self
1998
0.0
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
as Self
1995
0.0
A Great Day in Harlem
as Self
1994
6.2
🎬
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
as Self (archive footage)
1992
4.4
El invierno en Lisboa
as Bill Swann
1991
2.0
Amazonia
as (voice)
1990
8.0
🎬
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
as Self
1990
0.0
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
as Self
1989
0.0
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
as Self - Trumpet
1989
8.0
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
as Self
1989
0.0
Didn't We Ramble On
as Narrator
1989
0.0
🎬
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
as Self
1986
0.0
The Cosmic Eye
as The Musicians
1986
5.8
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
as Self
1985
0.0
The Cosby Show
as Mr. Hampton
1984
7.0
🎬
Bei Bio
as Self
1983
0.0
A Family Circus Easter
as Easter Bunny (voice)
1982
7.0
🎬
Dizzy's Dream Band
as Self
1982
0.0
The Beginnings of Bebop
as Self
1981
0.0
🎬
Música para Sempre
as Self
1980
0.0
The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
as Self (archive footage)
1979
7.3
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
1976
8.0
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet - Berliner Jazztage 1974
as Self
1974
0.0
Voyage to Next
as Father Time (voice)
1974
4.6
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972
0.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
🎬
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
as Self
1967
0.0
🎬
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
as Self
1966
0.0
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self
1965
6.6
🎬
The Hat
as The First Border Guard (voice)
1964
0.0
🎬
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
as Self
1963
0.0
The Hole
as (voice)
1962
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Jazz Casual
as Self - Trumpet
1961
0.0
Date with Dizzy
as Self
1958
4.0
Jivin' in Bebop
as Self
1946
5.3
🎬
Cool
as Self
N/A
0.0
What's Happening
as Self
N/A
0.0