The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...

Saturday, June 6, 2026 marks the date when Jazz Royalty comes to Hamilton Stage with Dizzy Gillespie alumni and Grammy ...

The second recording by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band offers seventy minutes of superb, often legendary talents doing full justice to timeless material. While only three of the eleven tracks ...

Few big bands were as flexible, innovative or influential in 1946 as Dizzy Gillespie's bebop orchestra. In the mid-1940s, most jazz bands and musicians were playing swing, a syncopated rhythmic style ...

The phrase "ghost band" is often used -- in a pejorative sense -- to describe tired, lingering big bands whose leaders have long since departed. But for Wednesday night at least, that term deserved to ...

June 9-14: The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, stocked with veterans of the bop giant’s ensembles, works hard to honor its namesake. (Blue Note; June 9-June 14.) ...

As members of Galactic, Ben Ellman and Rob Mercurio are focused on the future of New Orleans music. But throughout the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve deeply invested themselves in New Orleans music of ...

In 1984, bassist John Lee got a call from his mentor, Bob Cranshaw, a longtime member of Sonny Rollins‘s group, asking if he wanted to fly down to Memphis to play with legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy ...

During his early days as a bandleader in 1953, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie discovered that economic circumstances often take ...

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May 8-13: The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band is stocked with bop acolytes from across the generations. This edition is under the secure leadership of the saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera.