Dizzy Gillespie Net Worth is
$15 Million

Mini Biography

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the period of Be-Bop in the American jazz custom. He was created in Cheraw, SC, and was the youngest of nine kids. He started playing piano at age four and received a music scholarship or grant towards the Laurinburg Institute in NEW YORK. Most mentioned for his brand “inflamed cheeks”, Gillespie accepted to copying the design of trumpeter Roy Eldridge early in his profession. He changed Eldridge in the ‘Teddy Hill’ Music group after Eldridge’s departure. He ultimately started experimenting and creating his personal design which would ultimately come towards the interest of Mario Bauza, the Godfather of Afro-Cuban jazz who was simply then a person in the Cab Calloway Orchestra. Becoming a member of Calloway in 1939, Gillespie was terminated after 2 yrs when he slice some of Calloway’s buttocks having a blade after Calloway accused him of tossing spitballs (both men later on became lifelong close friends and frequently retold this tale with great relish until both of their fatalities). Although mentioned for his on- and off-stage clowning, Gillespie endured among the founding fathers from the Afro-Cuban &/or Latin Jazz custom. Affected by Bauza, referred to as Gillespie’s musical dad, he could fuse Afro-American jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms to create a burgeoning CuBop audio. Usually a musical ambassador, he toured Africa, the center East and Latin America beneath the sponsorship of the united states State Department. Frequently he returned, not merely with new musical suggestions, but with music artists who would ultimately go on to accomplish globe renown. Among his proteges and collaborators are ‘Chano Pozo’, the fantastic Afro-Cuban percussionist; Danilo Pérez, a grasp pianist and composer originally from Panama; Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter, composer and music educator originally from Cuba; Mongo Santamaría, an Afro-Cuban conguero, bonguero and composer; David Sanchez, saxophonist and composer; Chucho Valdés, an Afro-Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer; and Bobby Sanabria, a Bronx, NY-born Nuyorican percussionist, composer, educator, bandleader and professional in the Afro-Cuban musical custom. Certainly, many Latin jazz classics such as for example “Manteca”, “A Night time in Tunisia” and “Guachi Guaro [Spirit Sauce]” were made up by Gillespie and his musical collaborators. With a solid sense of satisfaction in his Afro-American history, he remaining a legacy of musical superiority that embraced and fused all musical forms, but especially those forms with origins deep in Africa like the music of Cuba, additional Latin American countries as well as the Caribbean. Additionally, he remaining a legacy of goodwill and great laughter that infused jazz music artists and fans across the world with an authentic feeling of jazz’s capability to transcend nationwide and cultural boundaries–for this cause, Gillespie was and can be an international treasure.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Dizzy Gillespie
Died	January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Profession	Voice Actor, Singer-songwriter, Film Score Composer, Bandleader, A Night In Tunisia, Salt Peanuts, Tin Tin Deo
Nationality	American
Spouse	Lorraine Willis
Children	Jeanie Bryson
Parents	Lottie Gillespie, James Gillespie, A Night In Tunisia, Salt Peanuts, Tin Tin Deo
Awards	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Porin Award for Best Foreign Jazz Music Album, A Night In Tunisia, Salt Peanuts, Tin Tin Deo
Movies	The Cosmic Eye, The Hole, Dizzy Gillespie: Live in Montreal, Louis Armstrong: Good Evening Ev'rybody, The Last of the Blue Devils, Norman Granz: Improvisation, Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie: Live in '58 & '70, Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Chicago, Jeanie Bryson: Live at Warsaw Jazz Festival, The Hat, My Universe Inside Out, Masters of American Music: Count Basie: Swingin' the Blues, Dizzy Gillespie: Summer Jazz: Live at New Jersey 1987