With Sandoval’s latest album, titled Dear "Diz, (Everyday I Think Of You,)" he wanted to show just how much he was in awe of Gillespie and of HIS art form. "My hero was Dizzy and he embraced ...

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 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 ...

surely one of the greatest jazz albums of the 1960s, first reissued on CD in 1998. It opens with the quietly exhilarating Bebob, Dizzy’s trumpet flying and pulsing before Kenny Barron’s busy ...

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 ...

No one taught a young Arturo Sandoval more about the mysteries of bebop and how to approach a life in music than Dizzy Gillespie ... heard on Sandoval’s newest album, “Dear Diz (Every Day ...

Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation ... a flash-point opus from his own 2000 album, “Motherland” (Verve).