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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
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	Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Bebop (feat. Stan Getz & Sonny S..	Dizzy Gillespie	12:49	Album Only
2.	A Night in Tunisia (feat. Don Byas)	Dizzy Gillespie	3:08	$0.99
3.	Antropology (feat. Don Byas)	Dizzy Gillespie	2:41	$0.99
4.	Dizzy Atmosphere (feat. Charlie Park..	Dizzy Gillespie	2:49	$0.99
5.	Salt Peanuts (feat. Charlie Parker)	Dizzy Gillespie	3:20	$0.99
6.	Sweet Lorraine (feat. Don Byas)	Dizzy Gillespie	2:37	$0.99
7.	Tin Tin Deo (feat. John Coltrane)	Dizzy Gillespie	2:40	$0.99
8.	Birk's Works (feat. John Coltrane)	Dizzy Gillespie	3:10	$0.99
9.	The Champ (feat. J.J. Johnson)	Dizzy Gillespie	5:40	$0.99
10.	Caravan (feat. Stuff Smith & Mil..	Dizzy Gillespie	2:52	$0.99
11.	On the Sunny Side of the Street (fea..	Dizzy Gillespie	3:08	$0.99
12.	Manteca (feat. Chano Pozo)	Dizzy Gillespie	3:07	$0.99
13.	Cubana Be (feat. Chano Pozo)	Dizzy Gillespie	2:45	$0.99
14.	Bloomdido (feat. Charlie Parker &..	Dizzy Gillespie	3:27	$0.99
15.	My Melancholy Baby (feat. Charlie Pa..	Dizzy Gillespie	3:26	$0.99
16.	Leap Frog (feat. Charlie Parker &..	Dizzy Gillespie	2:33	$0.99
17.	Limehouse Blues (feat. Roy Eldrige &..	Dizzy Gillespie	9:57	$0.99

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