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 ...

A chance for collectors, interior design enthusiasts, and art connoisseurs to acquire rare and distinctive pieces is taking ...

Dizzy Gillespie About John Taylor For me, art and music flow into a creative confluence. Encouraged by my family to draw and play the drums at an early age, I continue to find expression in these art ...

In 1990, Gillespie received the National Medal of the Arts, the highest award for an American artist, and was honored by the Kennedy Center for his contributions to the performing arts.

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!

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.

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 ...

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.

Moody made untold records over 63 years of recording, and really excelled as a live performer. 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note is a recording made on his 80th birthday in 2005.