Dizzy Gillespie Autograph. Hand-signed larger Print. CoA

Dizzy Gillespie: Color print, hand signed by Dizzy Gillespie in 1991. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.





8 x 11,8 inches, mounted on cardboard. Cut by hand so the edges are not cut straight, otherwise fine condition.

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( 1917 – 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise". Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.

In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton referred to as the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.