Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie...… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that. — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton's Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan.… — Maliha Masood Copy Share Image
Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all… — Madlib Copy Share Image
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