The deceptively titled Dizzy and Strings only features Gillespie with strings for half of the selections, as if Norman Granz thought that perhaps a whole album of strings with Diz was a little too ...

The distinctive trumpet of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), with the idiosyncratic upward angle of its bell, is transformed into a starship on the cover of Dave Douglas' Dizzy ... This ...

The musicianship is top notch for the top number on the album, "Dizzy's Blues." After a short introduction by Gillespie, the band immediately burns into the tune -- and the audience sounds into it.

They called it bebop. A new three-disc retrospective album from Verve shows why Gillespie is so important in the history of jazz. Dizzy’s Diamonds: The Best of the Verve Years is a glorious romp ...

Legends Live: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet is a collection ... gets a haunting sweet-toned treatment from Gillespie. The album ends with an almost 16-minute version of Gillespie's near-Eastern vibed ...