Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie! Alumni All Stars Performing through October 26th at the Blue Note

All Your Jazz sending out a remembrance of Dizzy Gillespie on what would have been his 92nd birthday. The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All Stars are celebrating with a slew of shows at the Blue Note in New York. October 20th – 26th, 2009, the band will be performing as part of “Dizzy’s Birthday [...]

Terence Blanchard Wins Grammy For “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo”: Album recorded at 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that Terence Blanchard, the Festival’s 2007 Artist-In-Residence, has won his fourth Grammy, winning “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” for his performance on the classic Dizzy Gillespie composition “Be-Bop” from the recording Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival by the “MJF 50th Anniversary All-Stars.”
Nominated alongside his MJF All-Stars [...]

Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola In New York

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola is designed to entertain people in the spirit that Dizzy had – very welcoming. Their mission is that you have a good time and that you have a memorable experience. The whole facility is designed for international participation. This is a hall of integration…to bring everything together.

Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola is [...]

Poetic License Band & David Gonzales Featured At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola: Latin jazz meets the spoken word

Event:
David Gonzales & The Poetic License Band
Jan. 6th -10th, 2009
(11:00 pm)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Lincoln Center
New York

Dizzy Gillespie’s Club Coca-Cola welcomes its first spoken word artist to its stage with performer/storyteller David Gonzalez. Featuring the Latin-Jazz Sounds of the Poetic License Band.

Latin jazz meets spoken word in a performance exploding with passion, intelligence and energy. [...]

Two Great Jazz Releases: Remastered albums do Dizzy Gillespie justice

This summer, the jazz community saw the re-release of
two great Dizzy Gillespie albums. Having been digitally
remastered, the audience can step back over 50 years
and hear the best of “Dizzy” in its true, almost live-sounding
quality.

The 1st of these two albums is Showtime at the Spotlite,
an album that was initially released in 1946
after being recorded at [...]

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – (Hot House)