His trumpet playing was at a peak, with rapid-fire attacks of notes and an amazing harmonic range. He took various bands on State Department tours around the world starting in , the first time the U. Those excursions not only kept Gillespie working, they also stimulated his musical interests as he began incorporating different ethnic elements into his music, such as the Afro-Cuban rhythms he weaved into his big band arrangements. Never losing his thirst for collaboration, Gillespie worked with a variety of jazz stars as well as leading his own small groups on into the s.
Skip to main content. Date of death: Jan 06, In addition to creating bebop, Gillespie is considered one of the first musicians to infuse Afro-Cuban, Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms with jazz. He became immediately recognizable from the unusual shape of his trumpet, with the bell tilted upward at a degree angle.
The song Bebop by Dizzy Gillespie is a stark example of what this unique style of jazz embodies. As one of the founders of the genre, Gillespie composed the hit song Bebop in According to the music department at the University of Virginia, bebop is performed entirely differently than other jazz sub-genres such as swing.
No longer dance music, jazz became a more intellectual music for listeners. Mario Bauza got Gillespie into Cab Calloway's big band and showed Gillespie how to really blow his horn. He also sparked a growing interest in Afro-Cuban rhythms by Dizzy. In he re-formed a big band and added Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo.
Gillespie created the first successful synthesis of jazz and Afro-Cuban music. In the s Dizzy Gillespie created a new standard in trumpet virtuosity with his range and dramatic command of the instrument and his suppleness of rhythm, unevenly spaced phrases and complex, chromatically augmented runs played at breathtaking speed.
Many consider him the greatest trumpeter of them all. He and others also established bebop as a style of jazz for both small combos and big bands. After his tremendous creative output of the s, Dizzy Gillespie continued to play and lead at an extremely high level. He played mostly in small combos but sometimes resurrected a big band and performed until shortly before his death in Like Louis Armstrong before him, Dizzy Gillespie influenced players on all instruments.
Like Armstrong he created a new trumpet style. Armstrong largely created swing which became the musical language of small groups and big bands. Gillespie and others created bebop which became the next language of small groups and big bands. All of jazz is richer because of John Birks Gillespie. Dizzy Gillespie took trumpet playing to a new level and co-founded Be-Bop - the next jazz language after Swing. He later created his own band and developed his own signature style, known as "bebop," and worked with musical greats like Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald , Earl Hines, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington.
He would go on to become one of the most recognizable faces of jazz music, with his "swollen" cheeks and signature trumpet's bell, as well as one of the most influential figures of jazz and bebop. When he was 18 years old, Gillespie moved with his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gillespie went on to join Calloway's band in , with whom he recorded "Pickin' the Cabbage"—one of Gillespie's first compositions and regarded by some in the jazz world as his first attempt to bring a Latin influence into his work.
From to , Gillespie performed with prominent swing bands, including those of Benny Carter and Charlie Barnet. Working as a bandleader, often with Parker on saxophone, Gillespie developed the musical genre known as "bebop"—a reaction to swing, distinct for dissonant harmonies and polyrhythms.
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