Dizzy Gillespie
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Cosby Show
Great Performances
The Dick Cavett Show
Le Grand Échiquier
The Muppet Show
All Movies (53)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat2024 · as Self (archive footage)
- Maurice Baquet, The Accorded2023 · as Self (archive footage)
- Jazz Club 22022
- Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 19702022 · as Self - trompettiste
- Charlie Parker: Bird Songs2022 · as Self (archive footage)
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street2021 · as Self (archive footage)
- Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President2020 · as Self (archive footage)
- Jazz: The Only Way of Life2019 · as Self (archive footage)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool2019 · as Self - Musician (archive footage)
- Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure2018 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Jazz Ambassadors2018 · as Self (archive footage)
- Brownie Speaks2014 · as Self
- Jazz Legends in Their Own Words2014 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Music According to Tom Jobim2012 · as Self (archive footage)
- All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater2011 · as Self
- The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best2009 · as Self
- Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong2008 · as Self
- Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '702006 · as Self
- The Harlem Renaissance2004 · as Self (archive footage)
- Improvisation2004 · as Self
- Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal2002 · as Self
- Monterey Jazz Festival 19751998 · as Self
- Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar1995 · as Self
- A Great Day in Harlem1994 · as Self
- Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time1992 · as Self (archive footage)
- El invierno en Lisboa1991 · as Bill Swann
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs1990 · as Self
- Amazonia1990 · as (voice)
- To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life1990 · as Self
- Slim Gaillard's Civilisation1989 · as Self
- A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba1989 · as Self - Trumpet
- Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall1989 · as Self
- Didn't We Ramble On1989 · as Narrator
- Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis1986 · as Self
- The Cosmic Eye1986 · as The Musicians
- Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)1985 · as Self
- A Family Circus Easter1982 · as Easter Bunny (voice)
- Dizzy's Dream Band1982 · as Self
- The Beginnings of Bebop1981 · as Self
- Música para Sempre1980 · as Self
- The Last of the Blue Devils1979 · as Self (archive footage)
- Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 19741974 · as Self
- Voyage to Next1974 · as Father Time (voice)
- Jazz Is Our Religion1972
- Duke Ellington: Love You Madly1967 · as Self
- Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith1966 · as Self
- The Hat1964 · as The First Border Guard (voice)
- Dizzy Gillespie1964 · as Self
- Look at Life: Jazz All the Way1963 · as Self
- The Hole1962 · as (voice)
- Date with Dizzy1956 · as Self
- Jivin' in Bebop1946 · as Self
- Cool— · as Self
All TV Shows (11)
- The Cosby Show1984 · as Mr. Hampton
- Bei Bio1983 · as Self
- The Muppet Show1976 · as Self - Special Guest Star
- Le Grand Échiquier1972 · as Self
- Great Performances1971 · as Self
- The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
- Jazz Casual1961 · as Self - Trumpet
- What's Happening— · as Self