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Gillespie

Gillespie

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An American trumpet player and composer who helped create bebop, a jazz style
  • proper noun
  • /ɡɪˈlɛspi/
: Gillespie
  • Dizzy Gillespie was known for his virtuosic trumpet playing and innovative compositions in jazz.
  • Dizzy Gillespie

Examples

  • In a movie portrait of Gillespie, Mercer's "Midnight Sun" is featured.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet.

    Basquiat (1996)

  • You know what Coach Gillespie said about you, Frank?

    Rudy (1993)

  • Gillespie told you this, right?

    You Bury Your Own (2015)

  • On TV, we see the face of Mike Gillespie, and we hear the tail end of his plea:

    Fiction book (1995)

  • You know, from this angle, you look just like Dizzy Gillespie.

    The Cable Guy (1996)

  • Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie were just two among the many who performed "Autumn Leaves," for example.

    Academic text (2014)

  • "You're probably interested in bebop, in Dizzy Gillespie and all that stuff."

    Fiction book (1992)

  • That's just Dizzy Gillespie drumming up publicity.

    Bird (1988)

  • Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Max Kaminsky.

    The Terminal (2004)

Synonyms

Dizzy Gillespie
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A famous American jazz trumpet player who helped start bebop

emphasizes composing and helping develop the bebop style

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Gillespie comes from old Scottish Gaelic words Gille and Easbaig, which mean 'servant' and 'bishop'. So it originally named someone who worked for a bishop and later became a family name.