Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five minutes ...

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...

Few big bands were as flexible, innovative or influential in 1946 as Dizzy Gillespie's bebop orchestra. In the mid-1940s, most jazz bands and musicians were playing swing, a syncopated rhythmic style ...

True revolutions are never “finished.” They are ongoing and permanent in their power to transfix and transform us. The music of the great innovators of the last century, from Igor Stravinsky to ...

In 1945, after he and Charlie Parker had concluded the initial phase of the bebop revolution, Dizzy Gillespie fulfilled a lifelong wish by starting a big band. The time was certainly not propitious ...

“Bebop & Beyond: The Music Of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie,” featuring Charles McPherson, Gilbert Castellanos, Jeremy Pelt, Antonio Hart, Gerald Clayton, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth Concerts ...

When Dizzy Gillespie hit Sweden and Denmark, the halls were barely big enough to hold all the beboppers; in Paris, zealous French zazous (jazz fans) came to blows over him. Last week, Manhattan’s ...

It’s part of the mission statement of Jazz at Lincoln Center to honor the music’s greatest innovators, and no one jazz icon has received more adulation than Dizzy Gillespie. There have been at least a ...