Dizzy Gillespie — Trumpet, Vocals. Led World Statesman, Dizzy In Greece, Jazz From Paris - Dizzy And Django. Worked with Ray Brown, Charlie Persip, Wynton Kelly.
Dizzy Gillespie's leader album
Dizzy In Greece
Dizzy Gillespie · 1957
World Statesman
Dizzy Gillespie · 1956
Afro
Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra · 1954
New Jazz Sounds
Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris · 1955
The titles of World Statesman (1956) and Dizzy In Greece (1957) are not travel whimsy. Gillespie's big band was the first jazz orchestra the US State Department sent abroad as cultural diplomacy, in 1956, and both records are by-products of that assignment — the place names are an itinerary, not a mood.