Awards & Winners

Dizzy Gillespie

Date of Birth 21-October-1917
Place of Birth Cheraw
(Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Dizzie Gillespie, Dizzy, John Birks Gillespie, DG, Dizzy Gillespie & John Burks
Profession Singer, Musician, Composer, Bandleader, Film Score Composer, Voice Actor, Actor
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, 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." Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione. and balladeer Johnny Hartman

Awards by Dizzy Gillespie

Check all the awards nominated and won by Dizzy Gillespie.

1994


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Jazz at Massey Hall

1991


Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Honored for : Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Live at the Royal Festival Hall

1975


Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Honored for : Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
(Soloist)

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie