Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Dizzy Gillespie. The melody lingers on. The post Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

New York Times — In a four-decade career, Ms. Parris, hailed as Boston’s first lady of jazz, recorded 10 albums and performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Gary Burton. more info

Stereogum — Legendary Cuban-born jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval has played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Frank Sinatra to Barbara Streisand to Justin Timberlake to Alicia Keys. He's won ten Grammys, six Billboard awards, one Emmy, and Presidential Medal ... more info

Stereogum — Jazz had an amazing 2017. It was the music’s centennial—the Original Dixieland Jass Band’s "Dixie Jass Band One Step" and "Livery Stable Blues" were recorded on February 26, 1917 and released in May of that year. Several major figures in jazz h... more info

Chicago Tribune — This year’s centennials of jazz giants Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Ella Fitzgerald have been celebrated around the world. But one centenarian of legendary stature has been unjustly overlooked: Lena Horne. A superb singer, radiant movie sta... more info

Chicago Tribune — Few living musicians come closer to capturing the spirit and technical brilliance of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s work than Jon Faddis. Not that anyone has yet matched the combination of high-register velocity, lightness of tone, harmonic ingenuity ... more info

Chicago Tribune — What does innovation sound like? Chicago listeners heard at least two answers to that question over the weekend, via concerts that spotlighted innovators past and present. On Friday night, pianist Vijay Iyer — whose gifts for musical invention won ... more info

Chicago Tribune — In this year of major jazz centennials, none holds more importance than that of Dizzy Gillespie, who transformed the music in ways that resonate profoundly to this day. Alongside Charlie Parker and others, John Birks Gillespie crafted the idiom we ca... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — How has there never been a comprehensive documentary about John Coltrane before now? One of the giants of jazz, the saxophonist collaborated with the best in the business — including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. From his s... more info

New York Times — Chuck Stewart was a fixture in the jazz world with his photographs of artists like John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie and many others. more info