Dizzy Gillespie
Acting • AGE 75
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, buildi...
Acting
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Self (archive footage)
2024
A Supermarket in Californi
Music
2024
Maurice Baquet, The Accorded
Self (archive footage)
2023
Jazz Club 2
2022
Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
Self - trompettiste
2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Self (archive footage)
2022
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
2021
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Self (archive footage)
2020
Jazz: The Only Way of Life
Self (archive footage)
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Self - Musician (archive footage)
2019
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Jazz Ambassadors
Self (archive footage)
2018
Brownie Speaks
Self
2014
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Music According to Tom Jobim
Self (archive footage)
2012
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
Self
2008
Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
Self
2006
The Harlem Renaissance
Self (archive footage)
2004
Improvisation
Self
2004
Monterey Jazz Festival 1975
Self
1998
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
Self
1995
A Great Day in Harlem
Self
1994
El invierno en Lisboa
Bill Swann
1991
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
Self
1990
Amazonia
(voice)
1990
Slim Gaillard's Civilisation
Self
1989
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Self - Trumpet
1989
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Self
1989
Didn't We Ramble On
Narrator
1989
The Cosmic Eye
The Musicians
1986
Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)
Self
1985
The Cosby Show
Mr. Hampton
1984
Hello
Original Music Composer
1984
A Family Circus Easter
Easter Bunny (voice)
1982
The Beginnings of Bebop
Self
1981
The Last of the Blue Devils
Self (archive footage)
1979
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974
Self
1974
Voyage to Next
Father Time (voice)
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Jazz Is Our Religion
1972
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
1964
The Hole
(voice)
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Jazz Casual
Self - Trumpet
1961
Date with Dizzy
Self
1956
Things to Come
Music
1953
Jivin' in Bebop
Self
1946
What's Happening
Self