Dizzy Gillespie
Acting
1917-10-21 · Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
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". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024 · Movie
A Supermarket in California
2024 · Movie
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
2023 · Movie
Jazz Club 2
2022 · Movie
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
2022 · Movie
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
2022 · Movie
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020 · Movie
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
2019 · Movie
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 · Movie
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018 · Movie
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018 · Movie
Brownie Speaks
2014 · Movie
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014 · Movie
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012 · Movie
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
2011 · Movie
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
2009 · Movie
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
2008 · Movie
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
2006 · Movie
Improvisation
2004 · Movie
The Harlem Renaissance
2004 · Movie
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
2002 · Movie
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
1998 · Movie
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
1995 · Movie
A Great Day in Harlem
1994 · Movie
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
1993 · Movie
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992 · Movie
El invierno en Lisboa
1991 · Movie
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
1990 · Movie
Amazonia
1990 · Movie
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
1990 · Movie
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
1989 · Movie
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
1989 · Movie
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
1989 · Movie
Didn't We Ramble On
1989 · Movie
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
1986 · Movie
The Cosmic Eye
1986 · Movie
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
1985 · Movie
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
Olympic Gala
1984 · Movie
Hello
1984 · Movie
Bei Bio
1983 · Series
A Family Circus Easter
1982 · Movie
Dizzy's Dream Band
1982 · Movie
The Beginnings of Bebop
1981 · Movie
Música para Sempre
1980 · Movie
The Last of the Blue Devils
1979 · Movie
Second Chance: Sea
1977 · Movie
The Muppet Show
1976 · Series
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
1974 · Movie
Voyage to Next
1974 · Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Series
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
1967 · Movie
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
1966 · Movie
The Hat
1964 · Movie
Dizzy Gillespie
1964 · Movie
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
1963 · Movie
The Hole
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Jazz Casual
1961 · Series
A Smattering of Spots
1958 · Movie
Date with Dizzy
1956 · Movie
Things to Come
1953 · Movie
Jivin' in Bebop
1946 · Movie
Cool
Movie
What's Happening
Series