Dizzy Gillespie

For this year's 4/20, we've got a Take Five takeover — by Jazz Cabbage, a forthcoming limited-run podcast exploring the cultural intersection of jazz and cannabis.

"'Round Midnight" is one of the most widely recorded compositions. In this Deep Dive, Dr. Lewis Porter demonstrates how it embodies the collaborative relationship between Dizzy Gillespie and its credited composer, Thelonious Monk.

We thank our readers for following Deep Dive with Lewis Porter.Sometimes new information comes to light after I’ve posted, and at other times I simply…

He was one of the master crafters of bebop. Beyond that, Dizzy Gillespie’s influence was legendary — an inspiration to countless players, and a magnet…

WBGO's Nate Chinen chats with jazz historian, musician, author and University of Rutgers-Newark Professor Dr. Lewis Porter about the various versions of…

Last month, Harlem hosted a 100th birthday tribute to trumpeter and innovator Dizzy Gillespie. The celebration included wonderful music and the unveiling…

Dizzy Gillespie, “Long Long Summer”I listened to hours and hours of Dizzy Gillespie over the weekend — not an unprecedented act, though it carried a…

Mickey Roker, a soulful and deeply propulsive drummer who carried a torch for literate hard-bop in the decades after its commercial peak, died on Monday…

By the time trumpeter Lee Morgan was eighteen years old, he was a fully established talent on the jazz scene. Touring with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band…

"Long Tall" Dexter Gordon is one of the best known and significant musicians on his instrument: he was one of the first tenor saxophonists to adopt the…