Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Flora Purim and Airto, Marvin ”Smitty” Smith, John Scofield, Tito Puente, Charlie Haden, Hilton Ruiz, Randy Brecker, and Jon Faddis.

John Birks Gillespie was born on Oct. 21, 1917, in Cheraw, S.C. He got the name Dizzy because he is such a colorful, nutty, fun-loving — dizzy — kind of guy.

"Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie were the pioneers of Latin jazz," Sanchez tells Art Attack. "They get credited for inventing Latin jazz in the mid-1940s when they met." ...

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 ...

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.

That appointment, which ended with Gillespie’s death in 1993, was formative: Mr. Perez has said it gave him the conviction to seek out his own personal amalgam of jazz and Latin music, and in ...