He told the Observer when he sold the home in 2007 that the building regularly saw visitors that included jazz icons such Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. “Dizzy was here all the time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thelonious Monk’s best-known composition, “’Round Midnight,” was first recorded 80 years ago this month. His slow, moody ballad ranks as among his finest work and one of the most enduring ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Manhattan townhouse on the Upper West Side where jazz music icon, the trumpeter Miles Davis ... frequently playing not just with Davis, but also with Dizzy Gillespie. Made up of seven bedrooms ...

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 ...

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 ...