Gillespie, Dizzy (1917-1993)
On stage, wearing his black beret, goatee, and wire-rimmed glasses, Dizzy Gillespie was the much-imitated archetype of the jazz hipster. When he raised his trademark bent ...
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Fifty years after helping found a new style of progressive jazz that came to be known as bebop, Dizzy Gillespie's (1917-1993) music is still a major contributing factor to the development of modern ja...
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Jazz musician Tony Scott, a clarinetist, composer and arranger who worked with such greats as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, has died, the House of Jazz said Saturday. He was 85.Scott died Wedn...
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Stockholm (dpa) - American jazz legend Sonny Rollins and US
composer and musician Steve Reich on Monday received the Polar Music
Prize 2007, joining the likes of musical gre...
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Washington (dpa) - Max Roach, a pioneering jazz drummer who played
on key recordings with legends including Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie and Miles Davis, died Thursday in...
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Description : Amazon.com He reached an apogee of fame in the mid-1980s as the producer-arranger of Michael Jackson's blockbuster album Thriller and the charity single "We Are the World," but Quincy...
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Dec 30 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 6 since 1900: 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president (1901-1909),
died. An expansionist politician, he...
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HAVANA (Reuters) - "King of the Congas" Tata Guines,
Cuba's most famous percussionist who shared the stage with
Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra half a century ago, died
Monday in Havana. He was ...
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Music impresario Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA C...
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Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioi...
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Singer Teresa Brewer, who topped the charts in the 1950s with such hits as "Till I Waltz Again with You" and performed with jazz legends Count Basie and Duke Ellington, died Wednesday. She was 76.B...
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Gillespie, Dizzy (1917-1993)
Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz clarinetist Tony Scott dies at 85
