Dizzy Gillespie
The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!
As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions
Guardian music
06, Oct, 2022 @12:12 PM
McCoy Tyner obituary
Jazz pianist who played with John Coltrane and influenced every generation since the 1960s
John Fordham
09, Mar, 2020 @4:25 PM
Clora Bryant obituary
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who performed with Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie
Peter Vacher
09, Oct, 2019 @2:02 PM
Sharp suits, thin ties and the coolest musicians on Earth: Jazz 625 is back!
It was a piece of black and white magic, a perfect fusion of sound and music boasting Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington – and lots of smoke. Can the landmark TV show now bewitch a new generation of fans?
Richard Williams
29, Apr, 2019 @1:43 PM
Michel Legrand obituary
French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl
John Fordham
27, Jan, 2019 @4:16 PM
When America's hottest jazz stars were sent to cool cold-war tensions
When a US blighted by racial unrest found itself needing to win a global propaganda war, a team of musical ambassadors was assembled. The result was anything but straightforward
Hugo Berkeley
03, May, 2018 @8:57 AM
The demons and obsessions of jazz genius Thelonious Monk
He played angular and slow when the fashion was for fast and sun-drenched. And a misdiagnosed bipolar condition meant he retreated into silence for the last years of his life. But now the pianist’s singular talent is finally being heard
Candace Allen
06, Nov, 2017 @9:53 AM
Sandi Russell obituary
Other lives: Jazz singer, writer and educator
Diana Collecott
14, Aug, 2017 @4:36 PM
Prom 27: Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute review – virtuosic hat tip to jazz legends' greatest hits
Contralto Dianne Reeves and musical polymath James Morrison are lively guides through a classical tour of the jazz songbook
John Lewis
06, Aug, 2017 @10:54 AM
Jazz snobbery is not all in the (male) genes | Letters
Letters: Jazz snobs can be women too. I’ve been one since I was a teenager
Letters
27, Jan, 2017 @6:51 PM
Phil Woods obituary
Fluent and creative saxophonist regarded as one of the world’s leading jazz soloists
John Fordham
30, Sep, 2015 @4:02 PM
Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience review – doesn't quite match legend's pulse-quickening racket
This Latin-jazz band feature sound best when they stray from pure Cubop, writes John Lewis
John Lewis
29, Aug, 2014 @11:12 AM
1 / 3 pages