This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with American jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s trumpet. In the 1940s, Gillespie, renowned for his harmonic complexity and scat ...

Jon Faddis is best known as a leading jazz trumpeter, but it’s likely that many fans of rock, funk, disco, pop, reggae and Latin music have heard his playing countless times over the years. That’s ...

Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval first met Dizzy Gillespie in Havana in 1977, when the American jazzman came to Cuba to play a concert. Sandoval showed him around the city, where the two men listened ...

Dizzy Gillespie wasn't content to stick with music people could dance to. The jazz trumpeter had more complex melodies, harmonies and rhythms in... Dizzy Gillespie: Trumpet Pyrotechnician Dizzy ...

You didn't need to know anything about Dizzy Gillespie's paradoxical career or his more paradoxical personality to discern that he was a lively mix of contradictions-you only had to hear him play. His ...

The second recording by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band offers seventy minutes of superb, often legendary talents doing full justice to timeless material. While only three of the eleven tracks ...

As renowned jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval prepares for the finale performance of his Blues Alley gig, his thoughts are never far from memories of his mentor, friend and musical colleague, the late ...

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 custom–made "Silver Flair" ...

Husband and wife Sean Jones and Brinae Ali are not only collaborators in life, love and parenthood, but also in the arts. From March 19-25, audiences will be treated to a glimpse of the couple’s ...

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 ...

Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez never met Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, but he did hear his music. Growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, Sanchez spent lots of time watching his ...