1. John Birks "Dizzy"
+ Gillespie, one of the
greatest Jazz trumpeters
of 20th century and one
of the main creators of
the bebop movement in
jazz, was born in
Cheraw, South Carolina
and died in Englewood,
New Jersey.
John Birks 'Dizzy'
Gillespie

2. + Biography.
 Dizzy Gillespie was the youngest of nine children. Because
Dizzy;s father, James Gillespie, was a local bandleader, this
meant that Dizzy had a lot of exposure to music as a child.
 At age twelve he began to study music, and dropped out of
boarding school at seventeen to move to Philadelphia, where
he began to work as a musician.& joined Frankie Fairfax's band
 It was while in Fairfax's band that he earned his lifelong
nickname, due to his clownish behavior. moving on to New
York City and Teddy Hill's big band in 1937, Later he played
with Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and Billie Holliday.

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Contributions& trademark.
 Dizzy was an improviser building on the style of Roy Eldridge
 He contributed by adding harmonic complexity previously
unknown in jazz.
 Dizzy’s beret, puffy cheeks, scat singing, bent horn and
cheerful personality are what was essential in popularizing
bebop music.

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Gillispie style & characteristics of
bebop.
Dizzy played with great speed, and used new rhythms and
chord changes. He was full of inventions and had huge variety
of facial expressions, he was a great entertainer.
 Solo constructions.
 Complex harmonic ideas.
 Horns that where piano like
 Improvising
 BEBOP PLAYERS MADE LIBERAL USE OF "QUOTES"

5. + Dizzy, didn’t stop at bebop.
In the late 1970s, Dizzy spent time mainly touring
overseas visiting Africa, Australia, Cuba, Europe.
His traveling lead him to new inspirations which is
where he became involved with afro-cuban music.
He was able to fuse Afro-American jazz and Afro-
Cuban rhythms with the help of Bauza.

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Dizzy Gillispie Legacy.
 Henever let his age slow him down, By 1989 Gillespie
gave 300 performances in twenty-seven
countries, appeared in one hundred U.S. cities in 31 states
and the District of Columbia, headlined three television
specials, performed with two symphonies, and recorded
four albums.
 Dizzy continued to play music into his late life. His last
public appearance was in Seattle in February of 1992.
Gillespie passed away in his sleep on October 6, 1993, at
the age of 75.

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Salt & Peanuts.
 Rhythm: Fast stream of notes w/off beat accents.
 Instrumentation: saxophone, trumpet, piano, string, bass, drums.
 Complex, clashing harmonies in introduction.
 Fast tempo.
 Rhythm changes
 Call and response.
 Frequent changes in note directions
 Bluesy melody phase before solos.

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Night In Tuelsa.
 INSTRUMENTS: Trumpet, Saxophone, piano, guitar, bass, and
drums.
 Mixture of latin and swing rythems.
 syncopation in the bass line,
 Moderate tempo
 Form: 32 bar song
 solo improvisations on muted trumpet
 short melodic ideas alternating between lyrical lines.

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