John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He ...

Hang out with me and let's talk about how to play and construct classic bebop lines. We will use ideas from Charlie Parker, ...

Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted Song Of The Century; Ace of Base hit No. 1; Pete Doherty was born; Paul married Linda; the U.S. charts got Rick-rolled for realsies; R.E.M. dropped “Out of ...

In 1949, with his reputation as a rising bop star fast gaining ground, he joined the Charlie Parker quintet (via an introduction from Dizzy Gillespie). For the next two years he was acclaimed as one ...

Among the leaders of this new idiom were trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Charlie Parker, who started out playing after-hours clubs in Harlem and venues around ...

Among the boycott’s principal victims were Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and their comrades, whose music was captured scantily and erratically in the period in which they were ...