Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespiewas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth21 October 1917
CityCheraw, SC
CountryUnited States of America
music guitar jazz
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
thinking people want
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.
blessed wife alcohol
I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.
blue eagles hands
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
creativity band charlie
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.
play jazz composition
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
player special something-special
There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
jazz miles stage
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
music way jazz
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
done apologizing jazz
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
country latin play
I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.
mean men rift
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.