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Biography

Born: October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, SC
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s

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' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was...

Top Albums By Dizzy Gillespie
Live At Ronni...	The Quintet: ...	Sonny Side Up	Bird and Diz	Tijuana Moods

	Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Sunshine (Live)	Dizzy Gillespie	14:33	Album Only
2.	Black Orpheus (Live)	Dizzy Gillespie	5:25	$0.99
3.	Con Alma (Live)	Dizzy Gillespie	11:13	Album Only
4.	The Truth (Live)	Dizzy Gillespie	14:18	Album Only
5.	Timet (Live)	Dizzy Gillespie	19:57	Album Only

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