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Dizzy Gillespie (21 Oct 1917 - 06 Jan 1993)

Male Person - United States

 Also known as (3)

Releases (314)

Official

Album

  1. Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars Mar 1947
  2. Dizzy Gillespie 1952
  3. Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 2 1952
  4. Dizzy, Volume 2 1952
  5. Dizzy, Volume I 1952
  6. Dizzy in Paris 1953
  7. Dizzy Gillespie Plays in Paris 1953
  8. Dizzy Over Paris 1953
  9. Horn of Plenty 1953
  10. Blow That Horn! Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1 1954
  11. Dizzy and Strings 1955
  12. Jazz Recital 1955
  13. Jazz Creations of Dizzy Gillespie 1956
  14. World Statesman 1956
  15. The Champ 1956
  16. Dizzy in Greece 1957
  17. The Dizzy Gillespie Story 1957
  18. Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band Jazz 1957
  19. Dizzy at Home and Abroad 1957
  20. Have Trumpet, Will Excite! 1959
  21. Perceptions 1961
  22. New Wave Mar 1963
  23. Dizzy Goes Hollywood 1964
  24. Jambo Caribe 1964
  25. Soul & Salvation 1969
  26. It's My Way 1969
  27. Cornucopia 1970
  28. The Real Thing 1970
  29. Portrait of Jenny 1970
  30. The Giant 1975
  31. Bahiana 1976
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Album - Compilation

  1. Groovin' High 1955
  2. The Essential Dizzy Gillespie 1964
  3. The Best of the Dizzy Gillespie Small Groups 1965
  4. Dizzy In Paris 1973
  5. In the Beginning 1973
  6. The Development of an American Artist 1976
  7. The Sonny Rollins/Sonny Stitt Sessions 1976
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Album - Live

  1. The Fabulous Dizzy Gillespie Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948 1953
  2. Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band in Concert 1957
  3. At Newport 1957
  4. Dizzy on the French Riviera May 1962
  5. Pleyel 53 1962
  6. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac 1967
  7. The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 1975
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Album - Soundtrack

  1. Original Score from The Cool World 1964
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Other - Compilation

  1. The Essential Recordings 2017
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Promotion

Other

  1. Dizzy Gillespie 1996
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Relationships (24)

Students

  1. Wallace Roney

Collaborator On

  1. The Quintet

Founded

  1. The United Nation Orchestra

Member Of

  1. The Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All Star Orchestra original, eponymous
  2. Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra original, eponymous
  3. Dizzy Gillespie Sextet original, eponymous
  4. Dizzy Gillespie Quartet original, eponymous, trumpet
  5. The Trumpets of Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Harry Edison original, eponymous, trumpet
  6. Dizzy Gillespie's All-Star Quintet original, eponymous, trumpet
  7. Dizzy Gillespie Big Band original, eponymous
  8. Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen original, eponymous
  9. Dizzy Gillespie's Cool Jazz Stars original, eponymous, trumpet
  10. Dizzy Gillespie-Phil Woods All Stars original, eponymous
  11. Dizzy Gillespie Quintet original, eponymous, trumpet
  12. The Dizzy Gillespie 6 original, eponymous, trumpet
  13. Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars original, eponymous
  14. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939 - 1941) trumpet
  15. Dizzy Gillespie – Stan Getz Sextet eponymous
  16. Charlie Parker’s Ree Boppers
  17. Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet
  18. The Giants of Jazz
  19. Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra trumpet
  20. Red Norvo All-Stars

Children

  1. Jeanie Bryson

Recordings by (1,340)

  1. I Can’t Get Started 3:04 (1946) studio, 1945-01-09: Manor W-1223-2
  2. Manteca ?:?? (Aug 1948)
  3. Cool Breeze ?:?? (Aug 1948)
  4. Interlude in C ?:?? (1950)
  5. Swing Low Sweet Chariot ?:?? (1950)
  6. Alone Together ?:?? (1950)
  7. The Things I Love ?:?? (1950)
  8. These Are the Things I Love ?:?? (1950)
  9. Tin Tin Daeo ?:?? (1951) 1951-03-01, mx. 4015
  10. Birks Works ?:?? (1951) 1951-03-01, mx. 2040
  11. The Champ, Part 1 ?:?? (1951) 19xx-xx-xx, mx. 5104
  12. The Champ, Part 2 ?:?? (1951) 19xx-xx-xx, mx. 5105
  13. Caravan ?:?? (1951)
  14. Swing Low Sweet Cadillac ?:?? (1951)
  15. Love Me Pretty Baby ?:?? (1951)
  16. Nobody Knows ?:?? (1951)
  17. I'm in a Mess 2:20 (1951)
  18. The Bluest Blues 2:53 (1951)
  19. Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:45 (1951)
  20. Thinking Of You 2:45 (1951)
  21. Cripple Craple Crutch ?:?? (11 Apr 1952)
  22. Somebody Loves Me ?:?? (11 Apr 1952)
  23. Dizzy Song ?:?? (1952)
  24. She's Funny That Way ?:?? (1952)
  25. Sunnyside of the Street ?:?? (1952)
  26. Klook ?:?? (1952)
  27. I Got the Boogie & The Be-Bop ?:?? (1952)
  28. Sweet Lorraine ?:?? (1952)
  29. Everything Happens to Me ?:?? (1952)
  30. Stardust ?:?? (1952)
  31. The Champ ?:?? (1952)
  32. Sunny Side of the Street ?:?? (1952)
  33. Lady Be Good ?:?? (1952)
  34. Keruac ?:?? (1952)
  35. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Part 1 / Part 2 ?:?? (1952)
  36. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac ?:?? (1952)
  37. Oo-Shu-Be-Do-Be ?:?? (1952)
  38. Afro-Paris ?:?? (Feb 1953)
  39. I Cover the Waterfront ?:?? (Feb 1953)
  40. Sweet and Lovely ?:?? (1953)
  41. My Old Flame ?:?? (1953)
  42. The Man I Love ?:?? (1953)
  43. Night And Day ?:?? (1953)
  44. Groovin High 2:45 (1953)
  45. Emanon 4:20 (1953)
  46. Dizzy Atmosphere ?:?? (1953)
  47. Blue and Boogie ?:?? (1953)
  48. Lady Bird 3:50 (1953)
  49. Fais Gaffe! ?:?? (1953)
  50. Moon Nocturne ?:?? (1953)
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On Recordings (50)

Instruments

  1. Pluckin’ the Bass 2:44 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  2. I Ain’t Gettin’ Nowhere Fast 2:49 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  3. Give, Baby, Give 2:37 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  4. Chili con conga 3:02 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  5. Twee‐Twee‐Tweet 2:46 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  6. For the Last Time I Cried Over You 2:52 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  7. Tarzan of Harlem 2:49 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  8. Jiveformation Please 2:32 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  9. Vuelva 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  10. A Bee Gezindt 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  11. Sincere Love 2:43 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  12. Do It Again 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1939) trumpet
  13. Come on With the "Come on" 2:56 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Jul 1940) trumpet
  14. (I Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (with You) 3:02 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Jul 1940) trumpet
  15. Papa’s in Bed With His Britches On 2:34 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  16. Silly Old Moon 3:07 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  17. Sunset 3:13 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  18. Yo eta cansa 3:02 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  19. Are You Hep to the Jive! (Yas, Yas) 2:50 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  20. Chop, Chop, Charlie Chan (From China) 3:02 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  21. Paradiddle 3:03 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  22. Calling All Bars 2:47 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  23. Do I Care, No, No 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  24. Feelin’ Tip Top 2:43 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  25. Hard Times (Topsy Turvy) 3:22 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet, trumpet
  26. Hi‐De‐Ho Serenade 2:58 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  27. Who’s Yehoodi? 3:09 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  28. Rhapsody in Rhumba 2:48 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  29. Hot Air 2:53 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  30. A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ but a Bird 2:53 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  31. The Worker's Train 3:16 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  32. Boog It 2:56 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  33. Boo‐Wah Boo‐Wah 2:49 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  34. Levee Lullaby 3:11 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  35. Pickin’ the Cabbage 2:48 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  36. Fifteen Minute Intermission 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1940) trumpet
  37. My Coo‐Coo Bird (Could Swing) 2:50 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  38. Bye Bye Blues 2:54 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  39. Says Who? Says You, Says I! 2:27 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  40. Are You All Reet? 3:04 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  41. Conchita (Cares Nothing About Love) 2:51 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  42. Special Delivery 2:58 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  43. I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You) 2:59 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  44. Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me) 3:10 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  45. Cupid’s Nightmare 2:42 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  46. Hey, Doc! 3:16 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  47. Mrs. Finnigan 2:47 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (1941) trumpet
  48. Interlude ?:?? Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra (1944) trumpet
  49. East of the Sun ?:?? Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra (1944) piano, trumpet
  50. Worried Life Blues 2:53 Oscar Pettiford Orchestra (1945) trumpet

Credited as (389)

  1. Dizzy Gillespie
  2. Dizzy Gillespie with Joe Marsala Sextet
  3. Dizzy Gillespie & The Gordons
  4. Dizzy Gillespie with Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra
  5. Dizzy Gillespie with Teddy Hill and His Orchestra
  6. Dizzy Gillespie with Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra
  7. Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo
  8. Dizzy Gillespie & Joe Carroll
  9. Dizzy Gillespie & Machito
  10. Dizzy Gillespie & Sarah Vaughan
  11. Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
  12. Arturo Sandoval & Dizzy Gillespie
  13. Stan Getz & Dizzy Gillespie
  14. Dizzy Gillespie with Johnny Richards and His Orchestra
  15. Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard & Clark Terry
  16. Miriam Makeba & Dizzy Gillespie
  17. Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
  18. Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie
  19. Dizzy Gillespie with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
  20. Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie & Clark Terry
  21. Dizzy Gillespie with Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra
  22. Max Roach & Dizzy Gillespie
  23. Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie
  24. Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
  25. Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie
  26. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Stan Getz
  27. Dizzy Gillespie y Machito
  28. Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker Quintet
  29. Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz
  30. Dizzy Gillespie and Arturo Sandoval
  31. Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge
  32. Dizzy Gillespie and The Mitchell-Ruff Duo
  33. Dizzy Gillespie with Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
  34. Charlie Christian & Dizzy Gillespie
  35. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  36. Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker
  37. Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson & Ted Brown
  38. Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  39. Slim Gaillard and His Orchestra feat. Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker
  40. Mal Waldron & Dizzy Gillespie
  41. Dizzy Gillespie feat. Sarah Vaughan
  42. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  43. Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie
  44. Muddy Waters feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  45. Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Joe Pass & Bobby Durham
  46. Dizzy Gillespie & John Burks
  47. Charlie Parker feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  48. Dizzy Gillespie feat. Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins
  49. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach & Charles Mingus
  50. Dizzy Gillespie feat. Stan Getz
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Works (104)

Arranged

  1. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
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Wrote

  1. Dizzy's Shout (Brazilian Improvisation)
  2. Woodin' You
  3. I Waited for You
  4. Salt Peanuts, Reborn
  5. Nbani
  6. Dizzys Blues
  7. Oop-Pop-A-Dah
  8. Our Delight
  9. Oop Bop Sh’ Bam
  10. Oop-Bop Sh’Bam
  11. Tanga
  12. Grand Central Getaway
  13. Algo Bueno
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Composed

  1. Haute Mon’ (11 Dec 1957)
  2. Woody ’n’ You
  3. Anthropology
  4. 'Bout to Wail
  5. Evening Sound
  6. Ungawa
  7. Rio Pakistan
  8. Jambo
  9. Two Bass Hit
  10. That's Earl, Brother
  11. Groovin’ High
  12. Dizzy Atmosphere
  13. Shaw 'Nuff
  14. Manteca
  15. Ow!
  16. Stay on It
  17. Cool Breeze
  18. Cubana Be
  19. Cubana Bop
  20. Ool-Ya-Koo
  21. Diggin' Diz
  22. Con Alma
  23. Dizzy's Shout (Brazilian Improvisation)
  24. Rocking with Mocotó
  25. Blues for Bird
  26. Minor Walk
  27. Guarachi Guaro
  28. Jump Did-Le Ba
  29. Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat
  30. And the Melody Still Lingers On (Night in Tunisia)
  31. Night in Tunisia
  32. Lover Man / Salt Peanuts
  33. Salt Peanuts
  34. Birk's Works
  35. Blue ’n’ Boogie
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Lyrics

  1. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
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Events (3)

Main Performer At

  1. Charles Mingus Sextet & Dizzy Gillespie at Théâtre de Verdure, Nice, France
  2. Pescara Jazz 1982
  3. Pescara Jazz 1990

Links (25)

Official Homepages

  1. http://dizzygillespie.net/

Other Databases

  1. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102015
  2. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138944733
  3. https://www.musik-sammler.de/artist/dizzy-gillespie/
  4. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50033872
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50033872
  6. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1238547A
  7. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6jw8cjh
  8. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/dizzy_gillespie
  9. https://ibdb.com/person.php?id=83656
  10. https://d-nb.info/gnd/118694960

Lyrics Page

  1. http://muzikum.eu/en/122-7579/dizzy-gillespie/lyrics.html

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/116665

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/64694

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000162677

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318926/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/77110276

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49575

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/6661

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/551915
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RzjqfPS0Bu4bUMkyNNDpn

Streaming Page

  1. https://tidal.com/artist/2649

Picture

  1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dizzy_Gillespie01.JPG

BBC Music

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/e9ba8ccb-505f-4e5c-b909-65998d0d35b5

Discography Pages

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/dizzy-gillespie/