You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina but turned it down to start his music career.īy submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Harlem World Magazine, 2521 1/2 west 42nd street, Los Angeles, CA, 90008. From the night he heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, play on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician.
Dizzy taught himself how to play the trombone as well as the trumpet by the age of twelve. His father had already died when Dizzy was only ten years old. He started to play the piano at the age of four. James was a local bandleader, so instruments were made available to Dizzy. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children born to James and Lottie Gillespie. Dizzy’s beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton referred to as the “Spanish Tinge”. Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying 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. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.Īllmusic’s Scott Yanow wrote that “Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to jazz were huge. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (pronounced /ɡɨˈlɛspi/ Octo– January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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