

Dizzy Gillespie - The Greatest of Dizzy Gillespie LP (RCA Victor, LPM 2398) VG
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.