From his time with Charlie Parker as one of the leaders in bebop, to his solo explorations, through to his later years delving into World music, Dizzy Gillespie ... of Miles Davis' work in Canada ...
Previous laureates have included Sir Paul McCartney, Dizzy Gillespie ... Together they made up two fifths of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet. "I was always frightened playing with Miles ...
Overshadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan, Kenny Dorham's abilities as a composer and unique voice as an advanced ...
As soon as he could get in, he began attending the matinee shows at local Boston Jazz clubs, seeing such greats as Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. After attending Northeast Broadcast school in the ...
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right ... the ‘cool jazz’ style of the 1950s Trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie was a contemporary of Charlie Parker’s in ...