American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer Dizzy Gillespie was a true pioneer. Gillespie scaled the heights with harmonic and rhythmic innovations in the 1940s that played a key role in ...

Calling all Jazz buffs! We are pleased to bring you Dizzy Gillespie and His Jazz Giants as they perform at Magnolia Gardens as part of Spoleto 1984! Band members include greats Jon Hendrick, J.C.

The posthumous album is nothing new to jazz--indeed, half of Coltrane's colossal discography was released after his death--but this album is, to my recollection, the first to be recorded from beyond ...

Few jazz venues have shaped the music quite like The Blue Note in New York City. Since opening in 1981, it has become one of ...

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A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

NEW HAVEN >> Willie Ruff, the music faculty member at Yale who was playing jazz with the greats back when there were dance halls in many towns, is jazzed up about Friday’s event at Morse Recital Hall ...

2024 has more than proven to be an intense political year as the country has faced the assassination attempt of one candidate and then the withdrawal of another just four months before the polls open ...

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Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ago ...