Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks Gillespie
American
American jazz legend - AsNotedIn
American jazz legend - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1939/00/00 | Dizzy Gillespie joins the Club Orchestra, led by Cab Calloway | Work | Palais Royal, Connie's Inn and Cotton Club site | New York City | |||
1947/09/29 | Before a sold-out crowd, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald bring bebop to Carnegie Hall for the first time. | Performer | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
1947/09/29 | Charlie Parker joins Dizzy Gillespie for a reunion of their groundbreaking quintet. The frenetic energy of bebop was a radical departure from swing and sparked open hostility in some musical circles. | Musician | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
1952/11/14 | Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal play two shows (8:15pm and 11:45pm) at Carnegie Hall. | Performer | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
1957/11/29 | A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. | Performer | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
1964/04/23 | Written and arranged by pianist Mal Waldron, Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet record "The Cool World" soundtrack, April 23-24, 1964. this is not the music heard on the film. | Performer | The Cool World |
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