Dizzy Gillespie News

Bebop bassist Oscar Pettiford made his reputation playing with many of the cutting edge jazz artists of the '40s and '50s. An innovative force, his work with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and a host of other jazz giants is often credited with expanding and extending the melodic range and solo possibilities of an instrument more often than not limited to the rhythm section. Late in the '40s, while recovering from a broken arm, he added the cello to his repertoire.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

As a sideman to bop's reigning kings ' Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Tadd Dameron ' he was more a bridesmaid than a bride... Read more.

I f you were raised in the Denver Metro area, you may have grown up with an altered perception of Denver's Five Points neighborhood.

Arturo Sandoval plays a horn that could cut glass. But surprisingly, some of his most winning moments came at his quietest, when he was singing his sweet tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, "Every Day I Think of You." Sandoval and his skin-tight band were half a double bill that closed this year's ArtsNaples World Festival Latin theme Tuesday at ... (more)

Chicago based saxophonist Geof Bradfield's Melba! is a much needed tribute to the criminally underexposed trombonist and arranger Melba Liston .

There will be one opportunity for those in the Charlotte area this week. Cuban born American jazz artist Arturo Sandoval will perform in a free jazz concert at Phillips Place on Wednesday, May 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The occasion is the grand opening of Windsor Jewelers' new store at 6809-D Phillips Place Court.

If you're kids come home from school this week and say, "I want to play saxophone!" Or maybe, "I want to be Dizzy Gillespie!" or perhaps, "I want to sing like Clairdee!" then you know this must be the week for Operation Jazz Band in Healdsburg area schools.

Melba Liston isn't one of the big names that comes up when great jazz composer/arrangers are mentioned, but it should be.

On Sunday, May 5, at 4:30 p.m., Rebecca Parris, Boston's first lady of song, and Brad Hatfield will perform at 42 Willow Road.

Roy Ayers did make the sun shine at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday , if only metaphorically.

Andy Roberts welcomes world-class drummer John Riley tonight during the First Thursday Jazz concert at MJ's Coffee House in Annville, adjacent to the Allen Theatre.

Jazz guitarist Jerry Bird celebrates May Day with a concert tonight at the Hansar Bangkok.

Google Doodle celebrates the legendary jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald , who would have been 96 on April 25.

Turin, April 26 - This year's Turin Jazz Festival is much more than music. The second annual jubilee from April 26 to May 1 brings together six days full of free events - concerts, meetings, exhibitions, theatre performances, conferences, presentations and street music, all in the centre of Piedmont's capital city.

Whitthorne Middle School Band Director Cord Martin, left, and Charles Tate pose for a photo at the signing of the proclamation declaring April "Jazz Appreciation Month," in Columbia.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned to Berkeley and continues to walk on water.

Guitarist Howard was born in California, moving to New York at 21 where he soon carved himself a niche as the most noted jazz guitarist of his generation, signing with Concord Jazz and performing alongside some of the greatest names in the business, like Clark Terry, Woody Herman, Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie.