We'd like to welcome Take Five, NPR Music's weekly five-song listening sampler, to A Blog Supreme. For years now, our own Lars Gotrich has helped produce these features, which spotlight great artists, ...

Dizzy Gillespie once said that he heard Roy Eldridge playing trumpet and uttered, "That's the job I want." Later, the two musicians were bitter... Dizzy Gillespie: 'Roy and Diz' [MUSIC] A.B. SPELLMAN, ...

The first six tracks on this album, which were recorded at New York City's Town Hall on June 22, 1945, are amongst the most exciting in the jazz compendium. Not only because of their intrinsic ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This bust of American jazz trumpeter, ...

A black and white photograph of Dizzy Gillespie and band by Arthur Leipzig. On the left there is an unidentified man, partially out of the image. He is in a black jacket with one hand on the bass drum ...

A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt—beautifully reissued on AAA vinyl by Optimal. This hard ...

The Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy offers the organization an opportunity to create and introduce an even more robust music curriculum focused on the study of the genre’s history, musicianship, and ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ago ...