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Born: October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, SC
Years Active: 30 's, 40 's, 50 's, 60 's, 70 's, 80 's, 90 's
Died: January 06, 1993 in Englewood, NJ
Genre: Jazz

Biography:
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 wa ...More >>

Discography: 2009 Swingin' Low 2002 Toronto Massey Hall 53 2002 Continental 1999 Pleyel, 25 Novembre 1960 1999 Dizzy in South America: Official U.S. State Department Tour, 1956, Vol. 1 More >>

Filmograpy:

2007	Jumpin' and Jivin', Vol. 1
2006	Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
2001	Music Classics, Vol. 4
1998	Dizzy Gillespie: The Dizzy Gillespie Ages

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Similar Artists: Miles Davis Jon Faddis Machito Doc Cheatham Lester Bowie More >>

Influenced By: Henry "Red" Allen Louis Armstrong Charlie Shavers Roy Eldridge Bix Beiderbecke More >> Followers: Miles Davis Herb Pomeroy Bill Watrous Jon Faddis Burt Bacharach More >>

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