Orange County Register

The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie will fill the Hollywood Bowl in celebration of the jazz legends’ centennial

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels ...
The Baltimore Sun

1960s jazz festivals at Laurel Race Course

The Laurel jazz festivals, held at Laurel Race Course in 1967, 1968 and 1969, attracted big-name bands including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Etta Jones, Woody Herman and his Big Band, Thelonious ...
The New York Times

For Dizzy Gillespie, Queens Was the Place to Be and to Bop

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...
NPR

How Dizzy Gillespie helped forge a new jazz era in America

Dizzy Gillespie and his iconic trumpet — with its turned up bell — brought a new era of American jazz to a global audience. It's part of our 250th anniversary series America in Pursuit. The signing of ...