Rhythmstick (CTI). Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Flora Purim and Airto, Marvin ”Smitty” Smith, John Scofield, Tito Puente, Charlie Haden, Hilton Ruiz ...

But between his jokes and his good-will work for jazz, we forget what made Dizzy Gillespie great in the first place: He may be the finest trumpet player of […] Skip to content All Sections ...

On February 20th, as part of the month-long Black History celebration, the Harlem School of the Arts will launch an important new, FREE music program, the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy. Learn more!

From March 19-25, audiences will be treated to a glimpse of the couple’s artistic influences as they evaluate and honor the work of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie as part of Washington Performing ...

Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez never met Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, but he did hear his music. Growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, Sanchez spent lots of time watching ...

But Morgan was still a teenager when jazz giants Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey recruited him to join their bands, and he later played in the great 1959-61 edition of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra, a clutch of musicians from the Americas and the Caribbean. That appointment, which ...