John Birks Dizzy Gillespie Between 1942-44, both Gillespie and Parker played in the Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine big bands. 1943 at the Onyx club, Di
{"Image DocumentName": "John Birks Dizzy Gillespie", "Image ImageDescription": "Between , both Gillespie and Parker played in the Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine big bands at the Onyx club, Dizzy and bassist Oscar Pettiford put together the first bebop combo to appear outside Harlem. It was this group that established the two-horn-lay-the-head-in-unison format that subsequent bop groups would us. February Dizzy participated in what is often called the first bebop recording session with Coleman Hawkins, recording his composition Woody\u2019n You. In April 1944 , Gillespie and Parker captivated the jazz world when they co-led a combo at the Three Deuces Gillespie began spending less time with Parker and focusing his attention on his first love, big band music he co-led a band with percussionist Chano Pozo that introduced a new jazz style incorporating Latin rhythms and percussion called AFRO CUBAN. At their first gig in Carnegie Hall in September, Gillespie not only introduced Pozo to the world, but the innovative George Russell composition Cubana Be-Cubana Bop. Although Gillespie had combined Latin music and jazz prior to this with his famous 1942 composition A Night In Tunisia. December Together with Gil Fuller, Gillespie and Pozo wrote and recorded Manteca and it is arguably his most famous Afro-Cuban composition. By 1950\u2019s universally regarded as the top trumpeter in jazz. He went on to become the most commercially successful of the original bebop musicians and spent much of his later years involved in Music Education.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}