Dizzie Gillespie – Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra Featuring Chano Pozo (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:30 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Jazz
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John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridgebut adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop’s most prominent symbols.
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Dizzie Gillespie – Stuttgart/Frankfurt ’61 (Remastered) (1970/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:50 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Dizzie was one of the seminal figures of the bebop movement. These historic recordings bear witness to an important phase in the career of this exceptional trumpeter.
“Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis’s emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy’s style was successfully recreated [….] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time”. (Scott Yanow, AMG)
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