The Dizzy Gillepsie Story (2001)

Fifty years after helping found a new style of progressive jazz that came to be known as bebop, Dizzy Gillespie's (1917-1993) music is still a major contributing factor to the development of modern jazz.
Bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie could play circles around most of his peers and, for just about 50 years, he did just that. Throughout his long and innovative career, he looked like the epitome of a jazz musician–wearing sunglasses, goatee beard, beret, and playing into his trademark crooked horn. When he visited St. Louis in 1944 with Billy Eckstine and Charlie Parker, they inspired a young man in the audience by the name of Miles Davis, who would go on to become one of the all-time jazz greats. As bebop reached its twilight, Gillespie embraced Afro-Cuban music, introducing African, Latin and salsa elements into jazz and popular music.
In 1964, Gillespie put himself forward as a presidential candidate, with various friends and jazz stars in office. He was not elected. Dizzy Gillespie continued to record and perform throughout the 70s and 80s. In 1993 he died of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 75.

01. Blue rythm fantasy
02. Hot Mallets
03. Pickin' the garbage
04. Bye Bye Blues
05. Once in a lovetime
06. Stardust
07. Little john special
08. Woody'n'you
09. Disorder at the border
10. I stay in the mood for you
11. I can't get started
12. Good Bait
13. Bebop
14. Perdido
15. Cherokee
16. A night in tunesia
17. Groovin' high
18. Blue 'n' boogie
19. Groovin' high
20. All the things you are
21. Dizzy atmosphere
22. Salt peanuts
23. Shaw'nuff
24. Hot house
25. Get happy
26. Congo blues


01. Ten Lessons with Timothy
02. Slim's jam
03. Dizzy atmosphere
04. Diggin' diz
05. Conformation
06. Diggin' for Diz
07. Dynamo a
08. When i grow too old to dream
09. 'Round about midnight
10. The way you look tonight
11. Why do i love you
12. Who
13. All the things you are
14. 52nd street theme
15. A night in tunesia
16. Ol' man bebop
17. Anthropology
18. One bass hit, pt.1
19. Oop-bop-sh'bam
20. That's earl brother
21. Our delight
22. Good dues blues
23. Ray's idea
24. Things to come
25. For hecklers only
26. Smokey hollow jump
27. Boppin' the blues


01. Moody Speaks
02. Emanon
03. OW!
04. OO-POP-A-DA
05. Two Bass Hit
06. Stay on it
07. A night in Tunisia
08. Dizzy atmosphere
09. Groovin' High
10. Confirmation
11. KO KO
12. Leap Here
13. Algo Bueno ( Woody'N'You )
14. Cool Breeze
15. Cubana BE
16. Cubana Pop
17. Manteca
18. Good Bait
19. OOL-YA-KOO
20. Minor Walk
21. Guarachi Guaro
22. Duff Capers


01. Lover come back to me
02. I'm Be Boppin' Too
03. Swedish Suite
04. St. Louis Blues
05. Katy ( Dizzier and Dizzier )
06. Jump DI-LE-BA
07. Hey Pete, Lets Eat Mo' Meat
08. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
09. In the land of OO-BLA-DEE
10. Say when
11. You stole my wife, you horsethief
12. Coast to Coast
13. OO-LA-LA
14. Bloomdido
15. An Oscar for Treadwell
16. Mohawk
17. My Melon
18. Leap Frog
19. Relaxin' with Lee
20. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
21. Lullaby of the Leaves
22. Whats there to Say
23. ALone Together
24. On the Alamo
25. Interlude in C