Today in Music History for Feb. 14: ...

This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from ...

Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt—beautifully reissued on AAA vinyl by Optimal. This hard ...

Gillespie students Riley Cox (center) and Cole Katich (right) serve breakfast to veteran Randy Reid (left) at a Wall of Fame induction ceremony celebrating Veterans Day on Nov. 7, 2025. Gillespie ...

Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a Grammy-winning Cuban pianist and composer celebrated as one of the most innovative voices in modern jazz. He’ll be performing at Indy Jazz Fest on September 19. Born in Havana ...

In this video, I break down a fast 16th-note blues lick I transcribed from the legendary Dizzy Gillespie. This one lick opened the door to faster improvisation, and I’ll show you how I internalized it ...

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.

Director Oliver Hermanus follows two men united in love and music, but his style is overly pictorial and polite, and so is the film's romantic passion. In “Brokeback Mountain,” the two lead characters ...

The Phoenix Suns' backup point guard Collin Gillespie was their unexpected Robin to Kevin Durant's Batman who led an incredible 119-117 comeback home victory over their rival Los Angeles Clippers ...

The Harlem School of the Arts will announce today (February 20) the creation of the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy, thanks to a substantial grant from legendary trumpeter and philanthropist Herb Alpert.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When the opportunity presented itself to support the expansion of the Harlem ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of Lottie and James Gillespie. James was a local bandleader and young John was on the piano at age ...