Record ID:
35124840 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50033872
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1917-10-21
  • Cheraw (S.C.)
Death:
  • 1993-01-06
  • Englewood (N.J.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Fields of activity:
  • Jazz
Occupations:
  • Jazz musicians
  • Trumpet players
  • Composers
  • Band directors
Used for:
  • Berks, John, 1917-1993
  • Birks, John, 1917-1993
  • Gillespie, John Birks, 1917-1993
Notes:
  • Washington Post, 01-07-93 (Dizzy Gillespie, d. Englewood, NJ, 01-06-93)
  • New Grove dict. of jazz (Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks); b. Oct. 21, 1917, Cheraw, SC; trumpeter, composer, and bandleader)
  • Jazz at the Philharmonic, 1946? label (John Birks, trumpet)
  • Gaillard, S. Santa Monica jump [SR] 194- label (John Berks, trumpet)
  • American National Biography Online, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Gillespie, Dizzy; trumpeter, bandleader, composer / arranger, jazz musician; born 21 October 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina, United States; joined Cab Calloway's band (1939-1941); composed and arranged on Calloway's recordings, including Bye Bye Blues, and Boo-Wah Boo-Wah (1940); music director for Billy Eckstine's big band, arranging Good Jelly Blues (1944); seminal bebop recordings with saxophonist Charlie Parker (1945-1946); formed big band with Gil Fuller, and pianist John Lewis (1948); recordings of note are the album Diz and Getz andAfro(1953-1957); formed the Giants of Jazz (1971-1972); founded the United Nation Orchestra (1988); honors include, plaque President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1956); the National Medal of Arts; French Commandeur des Arts et Lettres; the Kennedy Center Honor; died 06 January 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)170910
  • 000000125515
  • abv00167126
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC PPi-MA DLC PaPiCLS TxU-Mu UPB CSt-HC DHU-MS HU
Authentication code:
  • kin