Mr. DIZZY GILLESPIE (Jazz Musician): He was one of the originators of the style.
Before his death in 1993, Dizzy Gillespie commented that Roach was a remarkable innovator.
You said you've had many teachers but only one master, and that's Dizzy Gillespie.
Dizzy Gillespie hired Kenny Barron from Philadelphia in 1962, and kept him for five years.
Mr. ROACH: Dizzy Gillespie heard me on a jam session in a place called Monroe's Uptown House.
In the early 1950s, he was blown away by the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars : Live from the Terrace Theater at the John F.
And there is Duke Ellington, Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven and Dizzy Gillespie.
His collection includes stunning shots of the musicians he played with, from Billie Holiday to Dinah Washington to Dizzy Gillespie.
As a founding father of jazz, puffy-cheeked trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was well known for the notes emanating from his instrument.
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He was also a leader of the radical generation of players, including Dizzy Gillespie, who were fomenting the bebop revolution.
On previous albums, they've tackled John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie.
He would just put his finger to his lips and blow out his cheeks, and the customs officials would say, "Welcome, Dizzy Gillespie!"
When she was just 16-years-old, she was performing with some of the great names of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.
Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
Early on, Golson was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's band, and also worked with Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Johnny Hodges.
His influences included Jelly Roll Morton, Tommy Dorsey and Dizzy Gillespie.
But because of the nature of instrumentation and the technology, it was always done through the person, through Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet or Charlie Parker's saxophone.
Rather than offering anything much in the way of innovation, he pacified the influences of Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro into a beaming, exceptionally lucid style of playing.
An early encounter with Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban music persuaded Acuna that she could find original common ground between the Latin music of her youth and the modern jazz idiom.
Minton's Playhouse, Harlem's most notable jazz spot, was struggling, with many of the musicians who had contributed to its fame Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke now playing more frequently in Greenwich Village.
Alumni of Gillespie's orchestras and new players convene in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars Big Band, with longtime Gillespie sidemen musical director Slide Hampton (trombone) and executive director John Lee (bass) running the show on New Year's Eve at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
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