2006-07-19 05:40:11 · 5 answers · asked by dizzys_gal 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Diz was a GREAT jazz trumpet player.
2006-07-19 05:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You dont know who he is?!?
He was an African-American Baha'i jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz.
In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz. 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 his instrumental skills, Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn and pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop, which was originally regarded as threatening and frightening music by many listeners raised on older styles of jazz. He had an enormous impact on virtually every subsequent trumpeter, both by the example of his playing and as a mentor to younger musicians.
2006-07-19 12:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Kemi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on this link and pick a song to listen
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/listenwatch/0,,435693,00.html#artist_name
2006-07-19 12:47:33 · answer #3 · answered by Wendy T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one of the early "modern jazz" greats. well known for "be-bop"
2006-07-19 12:44:11 · answer #4 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use wikipedia.com . they have a bunch of stuff there
2006-07-19 12:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋