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Dizzy Gillespie

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,013

1,123
Decades
- 1940s
  
  of 38
  
  8
- 1950s
  
  of 170
  
  5
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  313
- 1970s
  
  of 328
  
  0
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  1,103
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  1,142
- 2000s
  
  of 10,564
  
  6,050
Genres
- Jazz
  
  of 1,947
  
  598
- Latin
  
  of 714
  
  252
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,544
  
  572
- Pop
  
  of 13,665
  
  4,334

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1940s

2.8861

1950s

3.0956

1960s

1.3919

1970s

0.0000

1980s

0.1633

1990s

2.5894

2000s

1.0010

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Dizzy Gillespie is ranked overall as 2.4064 out of 4 stars

2.4064

Dizzy Gillespie Biography

Formed:

October 1917

Disbanded:

January 1993

Genres:

Blues, Broadway & Vocalists, International, Jazz, Latin, Miscellaneous, Pop, R&B & Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Labels:

Accord Classics/jazz, Allegro Corporation, Allegro Distributed Labels, Allegro Distributed Lines, Bd Music/forte, Best Of Jazz/city Hall, Black Label Records, Breathless/city Hall, Cap Music, Capitol/emi/sbk/chrysalis, Castle Music (windsong), Castle Pulse/wave, Cbs/epic/wtg Records, Classic World Productions Inc., Classics

History:

Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy ...more

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