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John Birks “John Birks Gillespie, among the biggest Jazz trumpeters of twentieth century and among the premier designers of the bebop motion in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina and passed away in Englewood, New Jersey.

Nicknamed “Dizzy” because of his silly on-stage tricks, Gillespie, a brass genius, set newly criteria for trumpet musicians with his advanced, “jolty rhythmical changes and constant harmonic explorations” on the instrument during the 1940’s historic period, which introduced an explicit alteration in American Jazz music from swing to bebop. The last of 9 kids, John Birks Gillespie was birthed into a house whose father, James, was a bricklayer, piano player and band leader: Dizzy’s mother was named Lottie. Dizzy’s father preserved all the instruments from his band in the family house and so the next trumpet large was close to trumpets, saxes, guitars and his father’s big upright piano (his father pulled down one of the walls of the home to bring the piano in ) most of his youth lifetime. James expend to bring in all of his older youngsters practice session musical instrument* only no one cherished music. Dizzy’s father passed away while he was 10 and never heard his most youngish boy play trumpet, although he did get the opportunity to listen him whopping around on the piano, as Dizzy began testing to play this intrument at a really young age .
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Gillespie appears with fellow jazz star Louis Armstrong in our loop on Black History.

Gillespie played trumpet in the 1930s in bands led by Teddy Hill & Lionel Hampton. Throughout the ’40s & ’50s Gillespie led his own bands, both big & small, & toured the world playing his complex & upbeat music. With Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk & Miles Davis, Gillespie ushered in the era of brash, quick, lopsided jazz known as bebop. In the 1950s he began using a trumpet with the bell angled upward at 45 degrees, a quirk which became his signature. He toured & performed right up to his death in 1993. Among his most popular tunes were “A Night in Tunisia” & “Salt Peanuts.”

A NIGHT IN HAVANA


Film Year:	1988
AFI Fest Year(s):	1988
US Release:	04/28/1989
Project Type:	Feature Film
Country:	United States
Film Genres:	Documentary
AKA:	Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Havana, A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cub