finetune artist: Dizzy Gillespie

If Charlie Parker was the chief architect of the bop revolution of the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie was its standard-bearer, an evangelist who battled public hostility and incomprehension with rapier wit. A trumpeter of dazzling virtuosity, he matched Parker's rhythmic innovations with deft harmonic ingenuity. He also functioned as teacher, putting his vast knowledge of harmony at the disposal of younger musicians like Miles Davis, who were trying to get a handle on the new sound. His historic big band featuring Chano Pozo was the first large-scale attempt to combine Latin music with jazz, and the unflagging excellence of his subsequent career was a tribute to the integrity of his original vision. He died in 1993.

Listen to Dizzy Gillespie at Finetune.

(2008) Savoy Jazz Super EP
(2008) Closer To The Source
(2008) The Cool World
(2008) Dizzy Goes Hollywood
(2007) At Newport
(2006) Night In Tunisia: The Very Best Of Dizzy Gillespie
(2006) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
(2006) Gettin Dizzy: The Ultimate Dizzy Gillespie
(2006) The Trumpet Summit Meets The Oscar Peterson Big Four
(2006) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner
(2006) To A Finland Station
(2006) The Best Of Dizzy Gillespie
(2006) Bahiana
(2006) Free Ride
(2006) Musician. Composer. Raconteur
(2006) Dizzy's Party
(2006) Digital At Montreux 1980
(2006) The Champ
(2006) The Dizzy Gillespie Story
(2006) School Days
(2005) Diz Big Band
(2005) Dizzy: The Music Of John Birks Gillespie
(2005) Sittin' In
(2005) The Winter in Lisbon
(2005) Best Of Dizzy Odyssey
(2005) Timeless: Dizzy Gillespie
(2004) New Faces
(2002) Afro
(2002) Bebop Professor (Bluebird's Best Series)
(2001) The Giant
(2001) Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
(2000) Dizzy Gillespie: Ken Burns's Jazz
(1999) An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
(1998) Jambo Caribe
(1998) Ultimate Dizzy Gillespie
(1998) Something Old, Something New
(1997) Talkin' Verve
(1997) Bird And Diz
(1997) Diz 'N Bird At Carnegie Hall
(1996) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
(1996) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
(1996) Dizzier & Dizzier
(1996) The Cool World / Dizzy Goes To Hollywood
(1996) Greatest Hits
(1995) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings - CD2
(1995) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings - CD1
(1995) Birks Works: The Verve Big-Band Sessions
(1995) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
(1994) Verve Jazz Masters 10: Dizzy Gillespie
(1993) Gillespiana/ Carnegie Hall Concert
(1992) Dizzy Gillespie At Newport
(1992) Dizzy's Diamonds - The Best Of The Verve Years
(1991) Duets
(1990) Diz And Getz
(1957) At Newport
(1956) Dizzy In South America
(1945) Shaw 'Nuff

Manteca
Dizzy's Blues
A Night In Tunisia
Cool Breeze
School Days