Trumpeter John Birks Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in Cheraw, S.C. His family moved to Philadelphia when he was 14. It was there where he began picking up professional gigs. Early in his musical ...

1 Review: New York Pops Celebrate NY's Own Lin-Manuel Miranda at Carnegie Hall WHAT: The Dizzy Gillespie TM All-Star Big Band has long considered the Blue Note their musical home, as Dizzy did since ...

Jon Faddis is best known as a leading jazz trumpeter, but it’s likely that many fans of rock, funk, disco, pop, reggae and Latin music have heard his playing countless times over the years. That’s ...

The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, the successor to the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band that ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with American jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s trumpet. In the 1940s, Gillespie, renowned for his harmonic complexity and scat ...

A friend of mine, music industry veteran Jeff Gold (www.recordmecca.com) recently showed me Guerney’s 2005 Jazz auction catalogue. For sale in it were both Dizzy Gillespie’s famous upward-bell trumpet ...

We'd like to welcome Take Five, NPR Music's weekly five-song listening sampler, to A Blog Supreme. For years now, our own Lars Gotrich has helped produce these features, which spotlight great artists, ...

Dizzy Gillespie wasn't content to stick with music people could dance to. The jazz trumpeter had more complex melodies, harmonies and rhythms in... Dizzy Gillespie: Trumpet Pyrotechnician Dizzy ...