Dizzy Gillespie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 21, 1917
- Died
- Jan 6, 1993 (aged 75)
- Place of birth
- Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
- Credits
- 66
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".
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Known for
The Cosby Show
1984TV
Mr. Hampton
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Self - Special Guest Star
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019Movie
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Hole
1962Movie
(voice)
Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
Jazz Club 2
2022Movie
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
2022Movie
Self - trompettiste
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
2019Movie
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019Movie
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
Brownie Speaks
2014Movie
Self
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
2011Movie
Self
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
2009Movie
Self
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
2008Movie
Self
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
2006Movie
Self
The Harlem Renaissance
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Improvisation
2004Movie
Self
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
2002Movie
Self
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
1998Movie
Self
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
1995Movie
Self
A Great Day in Harlem
1994Movie
Self
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
1993Movie
Self - Musician, Trumpet
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992Movie
Self (archive footage)
El invierno en Lisboa
1991Movie
Bill Swann
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
1990Movie
Self
Amazonia
1990Movie
(voice)
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
1990Movie
Self
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
1989Movie
Self
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
1989Movie
Self - Trumpet
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
1989Movie
Self
Didn't We Ramble On
1989Movie
Narrator
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
1986Movie
Self
The Cosmic Eye
1986Movie
The Musicians
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
1985Movie
Self
The Cosby Show
1984TV
Mr. Hampton
Olympic Gala
1984Movie
Bei Bio
1983TV
Self
A Family Circus Easter
1982Movie
Easter Bunny (voice)
Dizzy's Dream Band
1982Movie
Self
The Beginnings of Bebop
1981Movie
Self
Música para Sempre
1980Movie
Self
The Last of the Blue Devils
1979Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Self - Special Guest Star
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
1974Movie
Self
Voyage to Next
1974Movie
Father Time (voice)
Le Grand Échiquier
1972TV
Self
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972Movie
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
1967Movie
Self
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
1966Movie
Self
The Hat
1964Movie
The First Border Guard (voice)
Dizzy Gillespie
1964Movie
Self
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
1963Movie
Self
The Hole
1962Movie
(voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Jazz Casual
1961TV
Self - Trumpet
Date with Dizzy
1956Movie
Self
Jivin' in Bebop
1946Movie
Self
What's Happening
TV
Self
Cool
Movie
Self