And so, we here at Crossfade have assembled a fantasy septet -- Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and four other jazzy geniuses -- who we'd love to see on a stage together, dropping some ...

Theband featured trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonistCharlie Parker ... At the very same time Beatlemania was slowly but surely beginning to engulf the globe, Miles Davis was inexorably ...

Director of the CIA: Miles Davis, who surely was an expert on ... To many music fans these days, Dizzy Gillespie is hardly a household name. If it is familiar, though, it may be partly due to ...

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and egoistic Miles Davis. “He was always such a positive, upbeat, happy presence wherever he was,” Bill said, echoing a sentiment of nearly everyone who crossed Dizzy Gillespie’s path—a ...

Dizzy Gillespie. For those unfamiliar ... would be "Minister of Peace"; Louis Armstrong "Minister of Agriculture"; Miles Davis would head the CIA; Malcolm X would be Attorney General; Thelonious ...

After working in the big band and small groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, he was a member of Miles Davis' Quintet from 1959 to 1963. Wynton Kelly was one of the most prolific sideman pianists of his era, ...

Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane ... then an unknown 18-year-old, acquired Dizzy Gillespie’s phone number from a friend. Without hesitation, Kaplan writes, Davis ...

Miles Davis is one such character – and that ... but instead begins playing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie “Bird” Parker. The chapters are strung together with Davis’ scribbles, which ...

One of my favorite Miles Davis stories involves an occasion ... of bebop as a rapacious acolyte of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Davis the artist modulated into the creator of the calmer ...

Growing up, Miles Davis spent summers in Noble Lake ... the first thing he did was go looking for Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The second thing was search for horse stables, which he ...