Dizzy Gillespie

Fantastic 'Voyage': Dizzy Gillespie's Trippy Jazz Film

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.06.2012

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Dizzy Gillespie is renowned as a trumpeter of incredible ability and inimitable style, but his legacy extends far beyond bebop. In 1974, the jazz lege...

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Movie Review: Chico & Rita

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.11.2012

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Marshall Fine

Chico & Rita is like a graphic novel of a romantic drama, set to music that entices and inspires. It's the grown-up choice to win this year's Oscar for animated feature.

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Jazz Pianist Jason Moran To Advise Kennedy Center

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 01.29.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday tapped 36-year-old pianist and composer Jason Moran to be its artistic advise...

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Google's Dizzy New Logo

Posted 05.25.2011

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Happy Birthday, Dizzy Gellespie! The jazz legend (1917-1993) would have turned 93 years old today and Google has honored the famed trumpeter with a c...

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A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad

Linda Constant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, Jazz Ambassadors, Auditions, Globalization, Dizzy Gillespie, Maura Pally, Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ari Roland, U. S. State Department, Louis Armstrong, CBS Sunday Morning, Duke Ellington, Adrian Ellis, The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad, Hillary Clinton, Communications, Secretary of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Public Diplomacy, Arts News
Linda Constant

The Rhythm Road facilitates not only cross-cultural discourse but also provides an extraordinary platform for artists to emerge from their own localism and share what they do, face-to-face, with the unknown.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in October Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jelly Roll Morton, Jackson Browne (& David Lindley), Daryl Hall (& John Oates), Mahalia Jackson, John Mellencamp, Cliff Richard, Thelonious Monk, Paul Simon, Dizzy Gillespie, Danielle Evin, Sean Lennon, Music, Tom Petty, Sting (the Police), Richard Hell (& the Voidoids), Vladimir Horowitz, Ivory Joe Hunter, Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), mp3s, John Lennon, Donny Hathaway, Phil Ramone, Franz Liszt (Performed by Claudio Arrau), Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, Dog Ears, Booker Ervin, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week we feature music by Paul Simon, Gwen Stefani, Sting, Hall & Oates, John Lennon, and more.

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19th Century Musical Geniuses Who Loved Homeopathy

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dana Ullman

Homeopathy gained popularity due to its impressive successes in treating the infectious disease epidemics of the 19th century, not just typhoid, but also cholera, scarlet fever, yellow fever, flu.

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