His trumpet was bent, his on-stage antics were quirky and unpredictable, but Dizzy Gillespie ... loose tongue to a jazz icon in his later years. Elvis had his hairstyle; Gillespie had his ...

Dizzy Gillespie, with his beret, horn-rim glasses, and tiny, sharp goatee, codified what would forever hence be the "jazz look." Creating visual icons is mostly the purview of movie stars ...

Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gilespie features two historic concerts from one of the founding fathers of bebop. Filmed 12 years apart, the 1958 concert features Dizzy working eloquently within the small ...

Dizzy Gillespie. For those unfamiliar ... in 2004 a play was staged in London called "Vote Dizzy!" It detailed the jazz icon's run for president.

Touring American jazz musicians were treated like foreign ... Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk and Quincy Jones. The nine DVDs are packaged as an elegant ...

Musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus ... The Kennedy Center celebrates jazz icon and social activist Charles Mingus at 100. Through performances and conversations, the special explores ...

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 ...

Dizzy Gillespie was a southern man whose Rochester ... Chick Corea and Joey Alexander at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The 75-year-old jazz icon Corea has nothing to prove. But I ran into ...

A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed ...

Kennedy Jr. The answer is John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, the legendary jazz trumpeter, composer, and innovator, who ran as an independent candidate in 1964 against incumbent Democrat Lyndon B.

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...