Jon O Bir
USA
Born: 21 October 1917
Died: 06 January 1993
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Jazz, International, Vocal
Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Bop, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cuban Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards, Big Band, Big Band/Swing
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Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was an enthusiastic teacher who wrote down his musica...
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- Lucky Thompson (7)
- Friedrich Gulda (3)
- Earl Hines (2)
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- Freddie Hubbard (41)
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- Tito Puente (7)
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- Jon Faddis (3)
- Flip Phillips (2)
- Lester Bowie (1)
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Influenced by
- Louis Armstrong (74)
- Coleman Hawkins (30)
- Lionel Hampton (10)
- Lester Young (8)
- Cab Calloway (4)
- Roy Eldridge (4)
- Mary Lou Williams (4)
- Bix Beiderbecke (3)
- Earl Hines (2)
- Billy Eckstine (2)
- Sidney Bechet (2)
- Fats Navarro (1)
- Bobby hackett (0)
- Frankie Trumbauer (0)
Followers
- John Coltrane (110)
- Dexter Gordon (51)
- Quincy Jones (44)
- Sam Rivers (43)
- Clark Terry (17)
- Burt Bacharach (14)
- Michel Legrand (12)
- Max Roach (11)
- Art Farmer (10)
- Wilbur Harden (6)
- Jon Faddis (3)
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- Nat Adderley (1)
- Jack Sheldon (0)
Performed Songs By
- Oscar Peterson (166)
- Count Basie (74)
- Elmer Bernstein (26)
- Gerald wilson (21)
- Mal Waldron (17)
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- John Lewis (12)
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- George Gershwin (4)
- Tadd Dameron (2)
- Billy Eckstine (2)
- Babs Gonzales (1)
- James Moody (1)
- Oscar Pettiford (1)
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