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Dizzy Gillespie - Great Moments (CD)

Dizzy Gillespie - Great Moments (CD)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie

Music Genre: Jazz

Label
Classic World Productions Inc.
Cat No
CWP 1193
Released
2002
Pressing
Canada
Styles
Jazz

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ArtistDizzy Gillespie
FormatCD
LabelClassic World Productions Inc.
Catalogue no.CWP 1193
GenreJazz
Released2002
Barcode0760137201922

Dizzy Gillespie — Great Moments Rare Sessions
Format: CD • Label: Classic World Productions Inc. (CWP 1193) • Released: 2002 • Pressing: Canada • Genre: Jazz

Tracklist:
1. Blue N' Boogie
2. Hot House
3. Groovin' High
4. Dizzy Atmosphere
5. All The Things You Are
6. Things To Come
7. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
8. Emanon
9. Ray's Idea
10. Our Delight
11. Good Dues Blues
12. Oop Bop Sh-bam
13. That's Earl Brother

Imported from the UK.

About the artist

American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
Born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Died January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Together with Charlie Parker he was the predominant figure in the development of bebop (bop), the earliest form of modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
He was also one of the founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz, adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, and utilizing complex poly-rhythms early on.
Career Highlights:
Awarded New Star Award from Esquire Magazine (1944)
Performs at first integrated concert in public school, Cheraw, SC (1959)
First jazz musician appointed by US department of State to undertake cultural mission (1972)
Awarded Handel Medallion from the City of New York (1972)
Received Paul Robeson Award from Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies (1972)
Performs at White House for President Carter and the Shah of Iran (1977)
Performs "Salt Peanuts" with President Carter at White House Jazz Concert (1978)
Inducted into Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1982)
Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (1989)
Received National Medal of Arts from President Bush (1989)
Received Duke Ellington Award from the society og Composers, Authors, and Publishers (1989)
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989)
Received Kennedy Center Honors Award (1990)
Received fourteen honorary degrees, including Ph.D. Rutgers University (1972), Ph.D. Chicago Conservatory of Music (1978)
Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording

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