Short Biography
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...
Durham tenor accompanies Fisk singers - Raleigh News & Observer DURHAM -- Preston Wilson was in Ghana, far from his Durham home, as he slowly walked around Elmina Castle with other Fisk Jubilee Singers in the summer of 2007. The Fisk University music education major was covering the same ground that African ...
On John Coltrane and Charlie Parker - Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder When I took my Black (now former) husband to the Minneapolis Institute of Art wing that specializes in African art I asked, “Do you feel anything?” He said, “No!” When I asked did he like the saxophone music of Coltrane, he replied, “It’s ...
Local director to play at inauguration - Cincinnati.com 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 ...
