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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...