This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with American jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s trumpet. In the 1940s, Gillespie, renowned for his harmonic complexity and scat ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This trumpet was made by Getzen ...
On Sonny Fortune’s 1976 jazz album “Infinity,” DownBeat magazine singled out one performer’s “warm trumpet,” thus earning national and international recognition for the musician. The trumpet player ...