Dizzy Gillespie: a discography, Volume II, 1953-1987. by Koster, Piet

Dizzy Gillespie / by James, Michael

Dizzy Gillespie : his life & times / by McRae, Barry

“…Dizzy Gillespie : his life and times.…”

Dizzy Gillespie and the be-bop revolution / by Horricks, Raymond, 1933-

The Dizzy Gillespie big bands.

To be, or not-- to bop : memoirs / by Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993

Groovin' high : the life of Dizzy Gillespie / by Shipton, Alyn

Jazz people / by Brask, Ole

Conversations with jazz musicians.

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Icons of Black music / by Greig, Charlotte, 1954-

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Jazz heroes / by Fordham, John

Table of Contents: “…The story of jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Thelonious Monk -- Gerry Mulligan -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Wes Montgomery -- John Coltrane.…”

Jazz spoken here : conversations with twenty-two musicians / by Enstice, Wayne, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Mose Allison -- Art Blakey -- Ruby Braff -- Anthony Braxton --Bob Brookmeyer -- Dave Brubeck -- Ray Bryant -- Larry Coryell -- Mercer Ellington -- Bill Evans -- Gil Evans -- Tommy Flanagan -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Chico Hamilton -- Lee Konitz -- Charles Mingus -- Joe Pass -- Sonny Stitt -- Gábor Szabó -- Clark Terry -- Henry Threadgill -- Bill Watrous.…”

Profiles in jazz : from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane / by Horricks, Raymond, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Sidney Bechet -- Art Hodes -- Budd Johnson -- Charlie Shavers -- Art Tatum and Ben Webster -- Freddie Green -- Arnett Cobb -- George Gershwin -- Mel Powell -- Jimmy Blanton -- Ellington -- 1956: a jazz annus mirabilis -- Gil Evans and Dizzy Gillespie -- Clint Eastwood and Bird!, the movie -- Al Haig -- Miles Davis -- Buddy De Franco -- Sarah Vaughan -- Gerry Mulligan -- Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins -- Britt Woodman-- Louie Bellson -- Wynton Kelly -- Clef/Verve: a company report -- Bill Evans -- Phil Woods -- Claude Bolling -- Ornette Coleman -- Eddie Jones -- Gary Burton -- Gordon Beck -- Ray Swinfield -- Johnny O'Neal -- Richard Davis -- John Coltrane.…”

At the vanguard of vinyl : a cultural history of the long-playing record in jazz / by Mueller, Darren, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…The LP Goes Live -- Do the Huckle-Buck : Jazz and the Emergent LP, 1949 to 1955 -- Mistakes, Mishaps, and Miscues : The Early LPs of Prestige Records -- Quest for the Moment : The Audio Production of Ellington at Newport -- World Statesman : The Ambassadorial LPs of Dizzy Gillespie -- Capturing the Scene: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco -- Mingus Ah Um : The Avant-Garde Record Making of Charles Mingus -- Jazz as a Culture of Circulation.…”

The later swing era, 1942 to 1955 / by McClellan, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…Music and socioeconomic characteristics -- Four masters of swing : Ella Fitzgerald ; Woody Herman ; Billy Strayhorn ; Teddy Wilson -- Big bands : Ray Anthony ; Tex Beneke ; Tiny Bradshaw ; Les Brown ; Billy Eckstine ; Les Elgart ; Dizzy Gillespie ; International Sweethearts of Rhythm ; Buddy Johnson ; Stan Kenton ; Elliot Lawrence ; Hal McIntyre ; Ray McKinley ; Lucky Millinder ; Vaughn Monroe ; Boyd Raeburn ; Buddy Rich ; Claude Thornhill ; Cootie Williams ; Gerald Wilson -- Vocalists : Cab Calloway ; June Christy ; Billy Eckstine ; Billie Holiday ; Herb Jeffries ; Peggy Lee ; Carmen McRae ; Anita O'Day ; Jimmy Rushing ; Frank Sinatra ; Kay Starr ; Sarah Vaughn ; Eddie Vinson ; Dinah Washington ; Joe Williams -- Small groups : Jonah Jones ; Louis Jordan ; Modern Jazz Quartet ; Oscar Peterson ; George Shearing ; Art Tatum ; Charlie Ventura ; Lu Watters' followers ; Bunk Johnson et al. ; Eddie Condon's Dixielanders -- A to Z.…”

Charlie Parker for piano : 15 [i.e. 45] piano solos arranged from his recorded solos / by Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955

Table of Contents: “…Ah-leu-cha (also known as Ah-lev-cha). Anthropology / Dizzy Gillespie. Barbados. Billie's bounce (also known as Bill's bounce). …”

Jazz festival : piano-vocal /

Playing the changes : Milt Hinton's life in stories and photographs / by Hinton, Milt

Faces in the crowd : players and writers / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Satchmo's nursery [Louis Armstrong] ; King of the Savoy [Chick Webb] ; The mirror of swing [Benny Goodman] ; Ghost stories [Larry Adler] ; The wizard of bop [Frank Morgan] ; Of Thad and Mel [Thad Jones and Mel Lewis] ; Juilliard dropout makes good [Miles Davis] ; Giant walks the earth [ Sonny Rollins] ; Dizzy like a fox [Dizzy Gillespie] ; Writers. Hard-boiled [James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard] ; The jilting of Katherine Anne Porter ; Vlad the impaler [Vladimir Nabokov] ; A face in the crowd [Elias Canetti] ; Scat song [Kurt Vonnegut] ; Zuckerman strikes back [Philip Roth] ; Senses and sensibility [Eudora Welty] ; Appendectomy [William Faulkner] ; Fathers and son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliet, Gunther Schuller]…”

The Charlie Parker companion : six decades of commentary /