name: Dizzy Gillespie
birth_date: 1917-10-21 00:00:00
death_date: 1993-01-06 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.2
ratings_count: 217
about: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. ...more