Dizzy Gillespie

Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote that "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's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time.
In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton referred to as the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.


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Total 94 sheet(s) found, listing between 60 - 80.
Song | Added By | Pages | Instruments | Sheet Type | File |
A night tunesia |
jakobgabor (29)
5182d ago
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3 | Saxophone | Original |
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night in tunisia solo |
kepes1989 (1)
5184d ago
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4 | Trumpet | Original |
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A Night in Tunisia |
lio_nel (26)
5187d ago
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14 | Piano, Trumpet | Transcription |
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A night in Tunisia |
jsaxicaria (85)
5191d ago
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1 | Saxophone | Transcription |
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Things to Come |
jazztrombone123 (73)
5199d ago
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1 | Bass | Book |
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Manteca |
jazztrombone123 (73)
5199d ago
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1 | Bass | Book |
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Night In Tunisia |
zoso1985 (2)
5199d ago
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1 | Piano, Guitar, Trumpet | Transcription |
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Algo Bueno |
lazylew (3)
5199d ago
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1 | Trumpet | Other |
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A Night in Tunisia |
elsergi_o (3)
5205d ago
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1 | Piano | Original |
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A night in tunisa |
bstew91 (8)
5206d ago
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14 | Piano, Trumpet | Transcription |
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A Night in Tunisia |
Ynghston (1)
5213d ago
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1 | Piano | Other |
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10 Jazz themes transcribed |
malitopr (20)
5217d ago
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26 | Piano | Transcription |
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A night in Tunisia |
peaceout (1)
5219d ago
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4 | Trumpet | Original |
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I dont know why |
jazzman (26)
5232d ago
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1 | Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Bass | Transcription |
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A Night In Tunisea |
chattaboxderek (28)
5232d ago
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1 | Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Saxophone, Bass | Original |
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(A) Night In Tunisia |
regreg (1)
5241d ago
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2 | Piano, Trumpet, Bass | Transcription |
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A Night in Tunesia |
clivesj (1)
5283d ago
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11 | Piano, Vocal, Bass | Transcription |
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A night in Tunisia |
zinulee (1)
5295d ago
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1 | Piano, Guitar, Vocal | Original |
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(Big Band) A Night in Tunisia |
piano-man (1)
5325d ago
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33 | Piano, Drum, Guitar, Trumpet, Saxophone, Bass | Original |
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A Night in Tunisia |
Evevelyn (4)
5332d ago
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1 | Piano, Guitar | Transcription |
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