- Nacimiento
- Defunción6 de enero de 1993 · Englewood, Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos (un cáncer de páncreas)
- Nombre de nacimientoJohn Birks Gillespie
- Alias
- DG
- Dizzy Gillespie nació el 21 de octubre de 1917 en Carolina del Sur, EE.UU.. Fue un actor y compositor, conocido por El impostor (1999), Dr. Cable - El desastre llama a la puerta (1996) y En el camino (2012). Estuvo casado con Lorraine Willis. Murió el 6 de enero de 1993 en Englewood, Nueva Jersey, EE.UU..
- CónyugeLorraine Willis(9 de mayo de 1940 - 6 de enero de 1993) (su muerte)
- NiñosJeanie Bryson
- PadresJames GillespieLottie Powe Gillespie
- FamiliaresHattie Marie Gillespie(Sibling)James Penfield Gillespie Jr.(Sibling)Eugenia Gillespie(Sibling)Edward Leroy Gillespie(Sibling)Laura Mattie Gillespie(Sibling)Wesley Gillespie(Sibling)
- 45 degree slant on his trumpet
- Ballooning cheeks as he played
- When playing, Dizzy Gillespie's cheeks would expand to extraordinary size, ballooning out far more than the average horn players do. This feature is so pronounced that there is now a medical condition named after this anomaly. Because he was the first, for all practical purposes, to have demonstrated this condition, and because since its recognition by the medical community there have been others who now exhibit similar symptoms, this condition has been officially named "Gillespie's Pouches".
- The trademark bend in Gillespie's trumpet came about due to a dancer falling on it during a show in 1953. He liked the effect that the bend had on his tone, and he had his trumpets custom-made to include it for the rest of his performing career.
- He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 20, 1995.
- Had played the trumpet solo on "Do I Do" from Stevie Wonder's compilation album "Musiquarium" (1982).
- Following his death, he was interred at Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- We have to play a benefit tonight for the B'nai Brith and the NAACP. It's sponsored by the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan, the Catholic Youth Organization and the YMCA and it's being held in the Greyhound Bus Station at Jackson, Mississippi. (humorous and sarcastic statement made in the early 1960s during C.O.R.E.'s attempts to desegregate interstate travel)
- "Kush" is a number we wrote on our recent trip to Africa, where we were busy making apologies for the [U.S.] State Department. (humorous and sarcastic statement about U.S. policy regarding Africa during the peak of the African Independence Movement, the early 1960s)
- [on Charlie Parker]: He was the other half of my heartbeat.
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