Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespiewas an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth21 October 1917
CityCheraw, SC
CountryUnited States of America
winning trying goes-on
Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.
gentleman jazz indifference
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
player special something-special
There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.
play jazz composition
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
thinking people want
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.