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Dizzy Gillespie

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Aliases
Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintette
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
Dizzy Gillespie et son orchestre
Dizzy Gillespie & His All-Star Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintette
Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars
Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars
Dizzy Gillespie and His Octet
Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
Dizzy Gillespie and His Sextet
The Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Ensemble
Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
The Tempo Jazz Men
Real name
John Birks Gillespie
Born
October 21, 1917
Died
January 6, 1993
Country
United States
IPI
00011891894 28 works
00088544437 22 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Legendary trumpet player, composer and one of the original beboppers. Gillespie also led an Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble.
Member of
The Paris All-Stars Trumpet
Family
Jeanie Bryson Daughter
Lorraine Gillespie Wife
Related
Sahib Shihab In Gillespie bands (1950s)
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Songs written by Dizzy Gillespie

Original songs

Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by
And Then She Stops Dizzy Gillespie, Lorraine Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie 1964 Covered by (6 artists)
Anthropology Charlie Parker [US1], Dizzy Gillespie The Be Bop Boys November 26, 1945 Covered by (143 artists)
Bebop Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Trummy Young, Shelly Manne, Clyde Hart, Oscar Pettiford January 9, 1945 Covered by (68 artists)
Birk's Works Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie March 1, 1951 Covered by (62 artists)
Blue'n Boogie Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli Dizzy Gillespie Sextet February 9, 1945 Covered by (33 artists)
Con Alma Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie 1954 Covered by (219 artists)
Dizzy Atmosphere Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie Sextet February 28, 1945 Covered by (24 artists)
Fiesta Mojo Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie 1964 Covered by (7 artists)
Groovin' High Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie and Cozy Cole - Slam Stewart - Remo Palmieri - Clyde Hart - Charlie Parker February 1945 Covered by (120 artists)
Guarachi Guaro Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra December 29, 1948 Covered by (11 artists)
He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra July 9, 1946 Covered by (3 artists)
Interlude Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli Dizzy Gillespie January 1944 Covered by (452 artists)
I Waited for You Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra November 12, 1946 Covered by (55 artists)
Manteca Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra December 30, 1947 Covered by (97 artists)
Olinga Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie 1970 Covered by (2 artists)
One Bass Hit Ray Brown [US], Dizzy Gillespie Herb Pomeroy 1955 Covered by (4 artists)
Ow! Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra October 1947 Covered by (28 artists)
Salt Peanuts Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet May 17, 1944 Covered by (50 artists)
Shaw 'Nuff Charlie Parker [US1], Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker - Sydney Catlett - Al Haig - Curly Russell May 11, 1945 Covered by (34 artists)
Stay on It Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra 1947 Covered by (4 artists)
Tanga Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 1975 Covered by (8 artists)
The Champ Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie July 1951 Covered by (15 artists)
Tour de Force Dizzy Gillespie The Trumpets of Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Harry Edison REC, Dizzy Gillespie REL November 2, 1955 Covered by (11 artists)
Two Bass Hit Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra August 22, 1947 Covered by (30 artists)
Woody'n You Dizzy Gillespie Coleman Hawkins and Orchestra February 16, 1944 Covered by (132 artists)

Adapted songs