Dizzy Gillespie
Acting • Born 1917-10-21 – Died 1993-01-06
Biography
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
61 credits
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Movie • 1989
Self
The Beginnings of Bebop
Movie • 1981
Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Hat
Movie • 1964
The First Border Guard (voice)
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
Movie • 2022
Self - trompettiste
Voyage to Next
Movie • 1974
Father Time (voice)
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
Movie • 2008
Self
The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
Movie • 1979
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Movie • 1964
Self
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
Movie • 2009
Self
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
Movie • 1989
Self
Cool
Movie
Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie • 2019
Self - Musician (archive footage)
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
Movie • 2006
Self
Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith
Movie • 1966
Self
A Family Circus Easter
Movie • 1982
Easter Bunny (voice)
The Cosmic Eye
Movie • 1986
The Musicians
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Movie • 1989
Self - Trumpet
Música para Sempre
Movie • 1980
Self
The Hole
Movie • 1962
(voice)
Improvisation
Movie • 2004
Self
All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater
Movie • 2011
Self
Date with Dizzy
Movie • 1956
Self
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal
Movie • 2002
Self
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
El invierno en Lisboa
Movie • 1991
Bill Swann
Brownie Speaks
Movie • 2014
Self
Didn't We Ramble On
Movie • 1989
Narrator
The Jazz Ambassadors
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
Movie • 1995
Self
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Amazonia
Movie • 1990
(voice)
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis
Movie • 1986
Self
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
Movie • 1985
Self
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
Movie • 1998
Self
Jivin' in Bebop
Movie • 1946
Self
A Great Day in Harlem
Movie • 1994
Self
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy's Dream Band
Movie • 1982
Self
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly
Movie • 1967
Self
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life
Movie • 1990
Self
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
Movie • 1974
Self
Jazz Is Our Religion
Movie • 1972
Look at Life: Jazz All the Way
Movie • 1963
Self
Bei Bio
TV • 1983
Self
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Mr. Hampton
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Jazz Casual
TV • 1961
Self - Trumpet
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
What's Happening
TV
Self