Acting
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman. AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Film · 2024
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Film · 2023
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
Film · 2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Film · 2022
Jazz Club 2
Film · 2022
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Film · 2021
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Film · 2020
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Film · 2019
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
Film · 2019
The Jazz Ambassadors
Film · 2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Film · 2018
Brownie Speaks
Film · 2014
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Film · 2014
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Film · 2012
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Film · 2012
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
Film · 2011
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
Film · 2009
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
Film · 2008
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
Film · 2006
The Harlem Renaissance
Film · 2004
Improvisation
Film · 2004
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
Film · 2002
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
Film · 1998
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
Film · 1995
A Great Day in Harlem
Film · 1994
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin
Film · 1993
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Film · 1992
El invierno en Lisboa
Film · 1991
Amazonia
Film · 1990
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
Film · 1990
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Film · 1990
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Film · 1989
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
Film · 1989
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Film · 1989
Didn't We Ramble On
Film · 1989
The Cosmic Eye
Film · 1986
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
Film · 1986
Music in Monk Time
Film · 1986
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
Film · 1985
Olympic Gala
Film · 1984
The Cosby Show
Series · 1984
Bei Bio
Series · 1983
A Family Circus Easter
Film · 1982
Dizzy's Dream Band
Film · 1982
The Beginnings of Bebop
Film · 1981
Música para Sempre
Film · 1980
The Last of the Blue Devils
Film · 1979
The Muppet Show
Series · 1976
Voyage to Next
Film · 1974
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
Film · 1974
Jazz Is Our Religion
Film · 1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Series · 1972
Great Performances
Series · 1971
The Dick Cavett Show
Series · 1968
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
Film · 1967
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
Film · 1966
The Hat
Film · 1964
Dizzy Gillespie
Film · 1964
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
Film · 1963
The Hole
Film · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
Jazz Casual
Series · 1961
Date with Dizzy
Film · 1956
Jivin' in Be-Bop
Film · 1946
Cool
Film
What's Happening
Series