While Guns N' Roses fans wait for official word on who's in and who's out of the lineup for the group's upcoming live dates, here's some fan-shot footage of longtime keyboardist Dizzy Reed taking the ...
Last year, the Canadian band Dizzy took home the Juno award for alternative album of the year for its debut album, Baby Teeth. That quick success probably has something to do with the fact that ...
Few big bands were as flexible, innovative or influential in 1946 as Dizzy Gillespie's bebop orchestra. In the mid-1940s, most jazz bands and musicians were playing swing, a syncopated rhythmic style ...
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 ...
With Fortus leaving, the band found themselves in need of a new guitarist and Doug Aldrich, best known for his work in Whitesnake and Dio, will deliver his sick licks for Dead Daisies. "I'm very, very ...
The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...
In the mid-1950s, Quincy Jones was part of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at a time when the U.S. State Department sent them on a goodwill tour around the globe. It was during the Cold War, and ...
May 28-June 2: The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. No matter which members of this vigorous tribute band are playing, its heart and its repertory are always in the right place. Among the staunch ...