Short Bio - John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ?'l?spi/ (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children. Dizzy's father was a local bandleader, so instrum Read More...
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Local director to play at inauguration - Cincinnati.com Pub. Date - Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:31:00 GMT John DeFoor, 79, of Covington, director for jazz studies at Xavier University for 26 years, has been invited to direct the National Jazz Band during the January 20 inauguration ceremonies for president-elect Barack Obama. “I played at the (Bill ...
Jazz programs of note in 2009 - San Jose Mercury News Pub. Date - Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:54:00 GMT Get out your 2009 jazz calendars and mark the dates March 21-22. That's when one of the most successful ongoing experiments in jazz returns for its sixth season. The SFJazz Collective, the all-star house band of the SFJazz organization, has a new ...
