In this video, I break down a killer 16th-note blues lick I transcribed from Dizzy Gillespie and show you how I used it to level up my improvisation skills. Learn how to practice fast phrases and ...

Interestingly, the cover features Nico ... a seasoned alum of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie’s bands, was already a formidable force on the saxophone. Gone With Golson, his fifth album, captures ...

At one point in the piece, while speaking about her famous reimagining of the Dizzy Gillespie-penned jazz standard ... on ‘Sticky Wicked’, on my CK album in 1988, and it was a beautiful ...

In the next hour we’ll hear her with Eckstine’s band and with musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie ... one of her signature tunes—“I Cover The Waterfront,” on Night ...

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

We’re ranking all 40 of his studio albums by the quality of the cover art. We’ve left out archival discs like the Bootleg Series and hits collections: It’s relatively easy to pick a stellar ...

And the cover of that week’s issue of Down Beat depicted Dizzy in full presidential regalia, with top hat, appearing to take the oath of office by swearing on a Bible. In 1971, Gillespie ...

Dizzy Gillespie. For those unfamiliar, the pioneer in bebop Jazz, whose angled bell on his trumpet and frog-like cheeks that puffed out when he played, made a splash at a Los Angeles club named ...

The album cover has been a cultural obsession as long as albums have. Ever since 12-inch vinyl records took off in the 1950s, packaged in cardboard sleeves, musicians have been fascinated by the ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ...

An album's cover, it can be argued, is just as important as its contents. It is, after all, the first thing a potential listener sees when they examine an LP, So selecting something eye-catching ...