It is no secret that jazz music is a national treasure. And locally, jazz served as the soundtrack to South Florida and its sunny lifestyle way before megaclubs and laptop DJs took over. But we're ...

50 Years At Monterery: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan article by Mark Corroto, published on October 8, 2007 at All About Jazz. Find more Multiple ...

Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie Played Here—Former Music Record HQ Now an $11.5 Million Manhattan Home Jazz impresario George Wein owned the Gilded Age limestone and brick building by architect ...

It is entirely possible that Gillespie and Davis made the quotes in Reich’s article at different points in their careers. Miles was known for being, let’s be charitable, slightly irascible ...

The genius of jazz masters Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie will be celebrated in words and sounds as poets and jazz musicians converge on The Nash stage Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 pm for the first ...

During the summer after he graduated from high school, Davis was asked to sit in on sessions with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He moved to New York in 1944 to attend the Juilliard School.

Miles Davis attitude had earned him the reputation of being an arrogant jazz musician but it didn’t keep his fans from filling the clubs. ... Dizzy Gillespie, and the alto sax swami Parker. ...

Miles Davis’ Nephew Recalls the Untold History of the Jazz Legend in ‘Birth of the Cool ... John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Dizzy Gillespie among them. By 1980, ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, ... and egoistic Miles Davis. “He was always such a positive, upbeat, happy presence wherever he was,” Bill said, ...