The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels ...

For big-band enthusiasts, and particularly those who are also Dizzy Gillespie fans, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band is a boon. Co-led by bassist John Lee and trombonist Slide Hampton - ...

Quite frankly, jazz fans, I really don't know how to review this concert, other than to relate my impressions as they come to me. So much was going on. In aesthetics, there is a concept called ...

Regular tickets for the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band performance are $71, $64, $59, $46, and $30, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online or at the Kimmel Center Box Office, open daily ...

In 1984, bassist John Lee got a call from his mentor, Bob Cranshaw, a longtime member of Sonny Rollins‘s group, asking if he wanted to fly down to Memphis to play with legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy ...

The phrase "ghost band" is often used -- in a pejorative sense -- to describe tired, lingering big bands whose leaders have long since departed. But for Wednesday night at least, that term deserved to ...

It may be difficult to comprehend just how radical Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet playing must have sounded when he came to wider public notice in 1945 only because the unconventional notions that he ...