Biography
Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to jazz were large. One of the biggest jazz trumpeters ever (some would state the very best), Gillespie was this type of complex participant that his contemporaries finished up copying Kilometers Davis and Fat Navarro rather, and it had been not really until Jon Faddis’ introduction in the 1970s that Dizzy’s design was effectively recreated. In some way, Gillespie will make any “incorrect” note match, and harmonically he was before everyone within the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Parrot, Dizzy was a keen teacher who published down his musical improvements and was wanting to clarify them to another era, therefore insuring that bebop would ultimately become the basis of jazz. Dizzy Gillespie was also among the important founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz, adding Chano Pozo’s conga to his orchestra in 1947, and making use of complex poly-rhythms in early stages. The first choice of two of the best possible big rings in jazz background, Gillespie differed from many within the bop era when you are a masterful showman who will make his music appear both available and fun towards the audience. Along with his puffed-out cheeks, bent trumpet (which happened unintentionally in the first ’50s whenever a dancer tripped over his horn), and quick wit, Dizzy was a vibrant figure to view. An all natural comedian, Gillespie was also an excellent scat vocalist and occasionally performed Latin percussion for the fun of it, nonetheless it was his trumpet playing and management abilities that produced him right into a jazz large. The youngest of nine kids, John Birks Gillespie trained himself trombone and turned to trumpet when he was 12. He was raised in poverty, earned a scholarship for an agricultural college (Laurinburg Institute in NEW YORK), and in 1935 lowered out of college to consider are a musician. Motivated and initially significantly affected by Roy Eldridge, Gillespie (who quickly obtained the nickname of “Dizzy”) became a member of Frankie Fairfax’s music group in Philadelphia. In 1937, he joined up with Teddy Hill’s orchestra in an area formerly packed by Eldridge. Dizzy produced his saving debut on Hill’s rendition of “Ruler Porter Stomp” and during his short time with the music group toured European countries. After freelancing for any year, Gillespie became a member of Cab Calloway’s orchestra (1939-1941), documenting frequently with the favorite bandleader and acquiring many brief solos that track his advancement; “Pickin’ the Cabbage” discovers Dizzy beginning to emerge from Eldridge’s darkness. However, Calloway didn’t look after Gillespie’s continuous chance-taking, phoning his solos “Chinese language music.” After an event in 1941 whenever a spitball was mischievously tossed at Calloway (he accused Gillespie however the culprit was in fact Jonah Jones), Dizzy was terminated. At that time, Gillespie had currently fulfilled Charlie Parker, who verified the validity of his musical search. During 1941-1943, Dizzy exceeded through many rings including those led by Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Charlie Barnet, Fess Williams, Les Hite, Claude Hopkins, Lucky Millinder (with whom he documented in 1942), and also Duke Ellington (for a month). Gillespie also added several advanced plans to such rings as Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, and Woody Herman; the latter recommended him to stop his trumpet playing and adhere to full-time organizing. Dizzy overlooked the guidance, jammed at Minton’s Playhouse and Monroe’s Uptown Home where he used his new concepts, and in later 1942 became a member of Earl Hines’ big music group. Charlie Parker was employed on tenor as well as the unfortunately unrecorded orchestra was the initial orchestra to explore early bebop. At that time, Gillespie got his style jointly and he had written his most well-known composition “A Evening in Tunisia.” When Hines’ vocalist Billy Eckstine continued his very own and formed a fresh bop big music group, Diz and Parrot (alongside Sarah Vaughan) had been among the people. Gillespie stayed lengthy more than enough to record several amounts with Eckstine in 1944 (most noticeably “Opus X” and “Blowing the Blues Apart”). That season he also participated in a set of Coleman Hawkins-led periods that are frequently regarded as the very first full-fledged bebop schedules, highlighted by Dizzy’s structure “Woody’n You.” 1945 was the discovery 12 months. Dizzy Gillespie, who experienced led earlier rings on 52nd Road, finally teamed up with Charlie Parker on information. Their recordings of such figures as “Sodium Peanuts,” “‘Shaw Nuff,” “Groovin’ Large,” and “Warm House” confused golf swing fans who experienced never noticed the advanced music since it was growing; and Dizzy’s rendition of “I CANNOT BEGIN” totally reworked the previous Bunny Berigan strike. It would consider 2 yrs for the frequently frantic but eventually logical new design to start getting on because the mainstream of jazz. Gillespie led an unsuccessful big music group in 1945 (a Southern tour completed it), and past due in the entire year he journeyed with Parker towards the Western world Coast to try out an extended gig at Billy Berg’s membership in L.A. Sadly, the audiences weren’t enthusiastic (apart from local music artists) and Dizzy (without Parker) shortly returned to NY. The following season, Dizzy Gillespie come up with an effective and important orchestra which survived for pretty much four unforgettable years. “Manteca” became a typical, the thrilling “What to Arrive” was futuristic, and “Cubana End up being/Cubana Bop” highlighted Chano Pozo. With such sidemen because the upcoming original associates of the present day Jazz Quartet (Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Ray Dark brown, and Kenny Clarke), Adam Moody, J.J. Johnson, Yusef Lateef, and also a John Coltrane, Gillespie’s big music group was a mating ground for the brand new music. Dizzy’s beret, goatee, and “bop eyeglasses” helped make him symbolic from the music and its own most popular body. During 1948-1949, just about any former swing music group was endeavoring to play bop, as well as for a limited period the main record companies attempted very hard to carefully turn the music right into a trend. By 1950, the trend had finished and Gillespie was compelled, due to financial pressures, to split up his groundbreaking orchestra. He previously occasional (and often interesting) reunions with Charlie Parker (including a fabled Massey Hall concert in 1953) until Bird’s loss of life in 1955, toured with Jazz on the Philharmonic (where he previously possibilities to “fight” the combative Roy Eldridge), going all-star recording classes (using Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Stitt on some times), and led combos that for a while in 1951 also presented Coltrane and Milt Jackson. In 1956, Gillespie was certified to form a large music group and play a tour abroad sponsored from the State Department. It had been so effective that more touring followed, including considerable tours towards the Near East, European countries, and SOUTH USA, and the music group survived as much as 1958. One of the youthful sidemen had been Lee Morgan, Joe Gordon, Melba Liston, Al Gray, Billy Mitchell, Benny Golson, Ernie Henry, and Wynton Kelly; Quincy Jones (alongside Golson and Liston) added a number of the plans. Following the orchestra split up, Gillespie returned to leading little groups, offering such sidemen in the 1960s as Junior Mance, Leo Wright, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Moody, and Kenny Barron. He maintained his popularity, sometimes headed specially put together big rings, and was a fixture at jazz celebrations. In the first ’70s, Gillespie toured using the Giants of Jazz and around that point his trumpet playing begun to fade, a continuous decline that could make the majority of his ’80s function quite erratic. Nevertheless, Dizzy remained a global traveler, an motivation and instructor to youthful players, and during his last year or two he was the first choice from the United Country Orchestra (offering Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval). He was energetic until early 1992. Dizzy Gillespie’s profession was perfectly noted from 1945 on, especially on Musicraft, Dial, and RCA within the 1940s; Verve in the 1950s; Philips and Limelight in the 1960s; and Pablo in old age.
Quick Facts
Full Name Dizzy Gillespie
Date Of Birth October 21, 1917
Died January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Profession Voice Actor, Singer-songwriter, Film Score Composer, Bandleader
Education Laurinburg Institute
Nationality American
Spouse Lorraine Willis
Children Jeanie Bryson
Parents Lottie Gillespie, James Gillespie
Awards Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Porin Award for Best Foreign Jazz Music Album
Music Songs A Night In Tunisia, Salt Peanuts, Manteca Theme, Tin Tin Deo, Con Alma, Algo Bueno, Hot House, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Groovin' High, Shaw Nuff, I Can't Get Started, 52nd Street Theme, Melancholy Baby, Birk's Works, Good Bait, Lover, Come Back to Me, Anthropology, Blues After Dark, Blue 'N' Boogie, Cubana Bop, Cubana Be-Cubana Bop, Dizzy Atmosphere, The Champ, One Bass Hit, In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee, Two Bass Hit, Oop Bop Sh' Bam, Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac, Umbrella Man, Something in Your Smile, I Remember Clifford, N'Bani
Albums Bird and Diz, Sonny Side Up, Afro, For Musicians Only, Have Trumpet, Will Excite!, Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie, Portrait of Jenny, Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris, World Statesman, To a Finland Station, Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods, Jambo Caribe, The Winter in Lisbon, Dizzy in Greece, Bahiana, Dizzy Gillespie at Newport, The Alternate Blues, Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4, The Greatest Trumpet of Them All, Dizzy on the French Riviera, Duets, To Bird with Love, Free Ride, Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet, The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4, The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner, An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, New Wave, To Diz with Love, Closer to the Source, The Bop Session, The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band, Dizzy's Party, Dizzy and Strings, Jazz Recital, Carter, Gillespie Inc., Perceptions, The Giant, Carnegie Hall Concert, Digital at Montreux, 1980, The Real Thing, Cornucopia, Dizzy Gillespie And Friends, Top Jazz, Bird Songs, Live in Paris & Copenhagen 1974, Jazz Classics Series: The Fabulous Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948 (Live), Dizzy Goes To College, Complete Jazz Series 1951 - 1952, Dizzy Atmosphere (Mono Version)
Movies A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba, A Great Day in Harlem, The Cosmic Eye, The Last of the Blue Devils, The Cool World, The Hole, Voyage to Next, Date with Dizzy, My Universe Inside Out, Dizzy Gillespie: Live in Montreal, Louis Armstrong: Good Evening Ev'rybody, Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Chicago, Norman Granz: Improvisation, Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie: Live in '58 & '70, The Hat, Jeanie Bryson: Live at Warsaw Jazz Festival, Dizzy Gillespie: Summer Jazz: Live at New Jersey 1987, Winter in Lisbon, Masters of American Music: Count Basie: Swingin' the Blues
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He was inducted into the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Entertainment Category. |
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He was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame for Arts and Entertainment. |
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He was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his contributions to Arts and Entertainment. |
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Had played the trumpet solo on "Do I Do" from Stevie Wonder's compilation album "Musiquarium" (1982). |
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When playing, Dizzie Gillespie's cheeks would expand to extraordinary size, ballooning out far more than the average horn players do. This feature is so pronounced that there is now a medical condition named after this anomaly. Because he was the first, for all practical purposes, to have demonstrated this condition, and because since its recognition by the medical community there have been others who now exhibit similar symptoms, this condition has been officially named "Gillespie's Pouches". |
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He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 20, 1995. |
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He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. |
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He joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1957. |
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Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982. |
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He was awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 1993. |
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Jazz trumpeter, the driving force behind bebop with Charlie Parker. |
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Following his death, he was interred at Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Our Brand Is Crisis |
2015 |
writer: "Soul Sauce GUarachi Guaro" |
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Sasha I Love You |
2014 |
Short writer: "A night in Tunisia" |
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Small Time |
2014 |
writer: "Soul Sauce" |
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Half of a Yellow Sun |
2013 |
writer: "A Night in Tunisia" - as Gillespie |
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On the Road |
2012 |
performer: "Salt Peanuts" / writer: "Salt Peanuts" |
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W.E. |
2011 |
performer: "Manteca" / writer: "Manteca" |
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L.A. Noire |
2011 |
Video Game as John Gillespie, "Manteca" / performer: "Manteca", "Oop Pop A Da" |
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Chico & Rita |
2010 |
performer: "Manteca" - as Dizzie Gillespie & His Orchestra / writer: "Manteca" |
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So You Think You Can Dance |
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TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2010 writer - 1 episode, 2010 |
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Howl |
2010 |
performer: "Lady Be Good" |
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More Than a Game |
2008 |
Documentary performer: "Manteca [The Funky Lowlives Remix]" / writer: "Manteca [The Funky Lowlives Remix]" |
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Two Lovers |
2008 |
writer: "Kush" 1961 |
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Grand Theft Auto IV |
2008 |
Video Game performer: "Whisper Not Big Band" |
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So You Think You Can Dance Australia |
2008 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Paris |
2008/I |
performer: "Be bop" / writer: "Be bop" |
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The West Wing |
2006 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Independent Lens |
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TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2005 writer - 1 episode, 2005 |
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Peter Cincotti: Live in New York |
2005 |
Video documentary writer: "A Night In Tunisia" |
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Ray |
2004/I |
writer: "Emanon" - as John 'Dizzy' Gillespie |
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American Splendor |
2003 |
performer: "Stardust" 1929, "Lady Be Good" 1924 |
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Boycott |
2001 |
TV Movie performer: "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" / writer: "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" |
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Burnt Money |
2000 |
performer: "Vida mía" |
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The Talented Mr. Ripley |
1999 |
performer: "THE CHAMP" / writer: "THE CHAMP" |
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The Woman Chaser |
1999 |
performer: "Manteca" / writer: "Manteca" - as John Dizzy Gillespie |
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Fifty |
1999 |
Documentary performer: "Ool Ya Koo" |
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Digging to China |
1997 |
writer: "Soul Sauce" - as D. Gillespie |
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Dream with the Fishes |
1997 |
writer: "Soul Sauce" - as John Gillespie |
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The Last Time I Committed Suicide |
1997 |
performer: "Shaw 'Nuff'", "Groovin' High" / writer: "Shaw 'Nuff'", "Groovin' High" |
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The Cable Guy |
1996 |
performer: "Salt Peanuts" / writer: "Salt Peanuts" - as John 'Dizzy' Gillespie |
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Fallen Angels |
1995 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Baseball |
1994 |
TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode |
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Bara du & jag |
1994 |
writer: "A Night in Tunisia" |
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When Pigs Fly |
1993 |
writer: "NIGHT IN TUNISIA" - as John 'Dizzy' Gillespie |
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Mac |
1992 |
performer: "MANTECA" / writer: "MANTECA" |
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Let's Get Lost |
1988 |
Documentary "A Night in Tunisia" |
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The Big Score |
1983 |
performer: "Ice Tea" |
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A Family Circus Easter |
1982 |
TV Movie performer: "Now You See It... Now You Don't" |
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The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People |
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TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1976 writer - 1 episode, 1976 |
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Shindig! |
1965 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Timex All-Star Jazz Show |
1959 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Les tricheurs |
1958 |
writer: "Mic's Jump" |
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Stage Entrance |
1952 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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Coqueta |
1949 |
writer: "Be-Bop" - as Dizzy Guillespie |
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Jivin' in Be-Bop |
1946 |
Documentary performer: "Salt Peanuts", "Oop-Bop Sh-Bam", "Dizzy's Untitled Original", "Shaw 'nuff", "I Waited for You", "A Night in Tunisia", "Crazy About a Man", "One Bass Hit", "Boogie in C", "Dynamo A", "Ornithology", "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped", "Droppin' a Square", "Things to Come", "Ray's Idea", "Bag's Boogie" - uncredited / writer: "Salt Peanuts", "Oop-Bop Sh-Bam", "Dizzy's Untitled Original", "Shaw 'nuff", "I Waited for You", "A Night in Tunisia", "One Bass Hit", "Dynamo A", " |
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Actor
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Tribeca |
1993 |
TV Series |
Watch Sargeant |
El invierno en Lisboa |
1991 |
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Bill Swann |
Amazonia |
1990 |
Short voice |
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The Cosmic Eye |
1986 |
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The Musicians / Father Time |
The Cosby Show |
1984 |
TV Series |
Mr. Hampton |
A Family Circus Easter |
1982 |
TV Movie |
Easter Bunny (voice) |
Voyage to Next |
1974 |
Short |
Father Time (voice) |
Jazz Is Our Religion |
1972 |
voice |
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The Hat |
1964 |
Short voice |
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The Cool World |
1963 |
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The Hole |
1962 |
Short voice |
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Music Department
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Fifty |
1999 |
Documentary musician: trumpet solo, "Ool Ya Koo" |
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El invierno en Lisboa |
1991 |
musician: trumpet solo |
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Amazonia |
1990 |
Short musician: trumpet |
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Hello |
1984 |
Short musician: soloist |
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Everybody Rides the Carousel |
1975 |
musician: trumpet solo |
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Voyage to Next |
1974 |
Short conductor |
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Les tricheurs |
1958 |
musician |
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Murder with Music |
1941 |
composer: songs "Geeshee", "Too Late Baby", "Hello Happiness" and "Running Around" |
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Composer
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Voyage to Next |
1974 |
Short |
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It Don't Mean a Thing |
1967 |
Short |
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre |
1966 |
TV Series 1 episode |
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The Hat |
1964 |
Short |
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Date with Dizzy |
1958 |
Short |
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Number 4: Manteca |
1947 |
Short |
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Thanks
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Bird |
1988 |
special thanks |
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Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Jazz de Cuba |
2004 |
Documentary |
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Improvisation |
2004 |
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Himself |
The Spitball Story |
1997 |
Documentary short |
Himself |
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar |
1995 |
Video |
Himself |
Masters of American Music |
1995 |
TV Mini-Series |
Himself |
A Great Day in Harlem |
1994 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin |
1993 |
TV Movie documentary |
Musician, Trumpet |
Great Performances |
1986-1993 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story |
1992 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Dizzy Goes East |
1992 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Futures |
1991 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Ebony/Jet Showcase |
1991 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Arsenio Hall Show |
1991 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts |
1990 |
TV Special |
Himself - Honoree |
Grammy Legends |
1990 |
TV Special |
Himself |
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones |
1990 |
Documentary |
Himself |
American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia |
1990 |
TV Movie |
Himself |
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs |
1989 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant |
1989 |
Video short |
Himself |
Omnibus |
1989 |
TV Series documentary |
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The Ghost of Faffner Hall |
1989 |
TV Series |
Himself |
American Masters |
1989 |
TV Series documentary |
Himself |
The 31st Annual Grammy Awards |
1989 |
TV Special |
Himself |
Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered |
1989 |
Video documentary |
Himself |
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger |
1988 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Frank's Place |
1988 |
TV Series |
Himself |
A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba |
1988 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Sunday Night |
1988 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1970-1986 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The 28th Annual Grammy Awards |
1986 |
TV Special |
Himself |
Arena |
1985 |
TV Series documentary |
Himself |
Harry Belafonte in Concert |
1985 |
TV Special |
Himself |
Olympic Gala |
1984 |
TV Special documentary |
The Olympic Jazz All Stars |
Roots of Rhythm |
1984 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Música Para Sempre |
1980 |
Documentary |
Himself |
From Jump Street: The Story of Black Music |
1980 |
TV Series |
Himself |
3-2-1 Contact |
1980 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Muppet Show |
1980 |
TV Series |
Himself - Special Guest Star |
Big Band Bash |
1978 |
TV Movie |
Himself |
All You Need Is Love |
1977 |
TV Series documentary |
Himself |
Dizzy Gillespie Helsingissä |
1976 |
TV Movie |
Himself |
The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People |
1976 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Dinah! |
1975 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Sammy and Company |
1975 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Timex All-Star Swing Festival |
1972 |
TV Special |
Himself |
First Newport Jazz Festival: Belgrade 1971 |
1971 |
TV Special |
Himself - Trumpet |
The Dick Cavett Show |
1970-1971 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Louis Armstrong: 1900 - 1971 |
1971 |
TV Movie documentary |
Himself |
The Bill Cosby Special, or? |
1971 |
TV Movie |
Himself |
Music on 2 |
1970 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Steve Allen Show |
1970 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Della |
1969 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The David Frost Show |
1969 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Baff - Fast eine Sendung |
1968 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Bell Telephone Hour |
1968 |
TV Series |
Himself - Trumpeter |
The Joey Bishop Show |
1967 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Dizzy Gillespie |
1965 |
Documentary short |
Himself |
Shindig! |
1965 |
TV Series |
Himself - Trumpeter |
The Mike Douglas Show |
1962-1965 |
TV Series |
Himself - Musician / Himself / Themselves |
ABC's Nightlife |
1965 |
TV Series |
Himself |
That Regis Philbin Show |
1965 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Lively Ones |
1962 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
1961 |
TV Series |
Jazz Trumpeter |
47 rue Vieille-du-Temple |
1960 |
Documentary short |
Himself |
Timex All-Star Jazz Show |
1959 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Date with Dizzy |
1958 |
Short |
Himself |
Person to Person |
1956 |
TV Series documentary |
Himself |
Music 55 |
1955 |
TV Series documentary |
Himself |
Stage Entrance |
1952 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Harlem Dynamite |
1949 |
Short |
Himself - Bandleader |
Jivin' in Be-Bop |
1946 |
Documentary |
Himself |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Won awards
Won awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie | Award shared with |
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1995 |
Star on the Walk of Fame |
Walk of Fame |
Recording |
Awarded on October 20, 1995 at 7057 Hollywood Blvd. |
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[on Charlie Parker]: He was the other half of my heartbeat. |
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"Kush" is a number we wrote on our recent trip to Africa, where we were busy making apologies for the [U.S.] State Department. (humorous and sarcastic statement about U.S. policy regarding Africa during the peak of the African Independence Movement, the early 1960s) |
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We have to play a benefit tonight for the B'nai Brith and the NAACP. It's sponsored by the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan, the Catholic Youth Organization and the YMCA and it's being held in the Greyhound Bus Station at Jackson, Mississippi. (humorous and sarcastic statement made in the early 1960s during C.O.R.E.'s attempts to desegregate interstate travel) |
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Ballooning cheeks as he played |
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45 degree slant on his trumpet |