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In his 67 years, Robert Wyatt has lived several musical lives.

Half Notes: Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt – Duets…

Jun 15, 2011

An underappreciated Dizzy Gillespie record on Verve, includes some s-s-smokin'…

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker - A Night In…

Dec 09, 2010

This is the famous 1947 recording from Carnegie Hall.

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Oct 21, 2010

Dizzy Gillespie is considered one of the most influential and innovative…

Dizzy Gillespie Biography

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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying 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." Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. Gillespie's pouched cheeks and trademark bent trumpet were captured by legendary ''New York Times'' portraitist Al Hirschfeld in a lithograph memorializing the musician's distinctive appearance (see below, right). thumb|right|[[Al Hirschfeld, Dizzy Gillespie. Lithograph portraying Gillespie with his distinctive pouched cheeks and bent trumpet. On exhibition at the Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd., New York ]] In the 1940s Gillespie, together 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, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.

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