People named John Gillespie

John J Gillespie of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio was born on September 13, 1926, and died at age 58 years old in November 1984.

John B Gillespie of Van Buren, Hancock County, Ohio was born on May 2, 1918, and died at age 53 years old in September 1971.

John W Gillespie of Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina was born on August 2, 1926, and died at age 50 years old in September 1976.

John C Gillespie of Marion, Smyth County, VA was born on March 13, 1918, and died at age 81 years old on March 31, 1999.

John W Gillespie of Tazewell, Tazewell County, VA was born on September 16, 1908, and died at age 87 years old on March 6, 1996.

John E Gillespie of Gwynn Oak, Baltimore County, MD was born on July 14, 1913, and died at age 83 years old on August 27, 1996.

John R Gillespie of Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania was born on May 7, 1903, and died at age 67 years old in September 1970.

John J Gillespie of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on June 16, 1928, and died at age 54 years old in March 1983.

John M Gillespie of Wallingford, Delaware County, PA was born on December 1, 1910, and died at age 76 years old in July 1987.

John C Gillespie of Willow Grove, Montgomery County, PA was born on November 25, 1927, and died at age 51 years old in January 1979.

John W Gillespie of Washington, Washington County, PA was born on May 11, 1924, and died at age 61 years old on October 16, 1985.

John F Jr Gillespie of Washington, Washington County, PA was born on March 30, 1920, and died at age 65 years old in October 1985.

John Charles Gillespie of Clifton Heights, Delaware County, PA was born on September 16, 1912, and died at age 71 years old in May 1984.

John Gillespie of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, CA was born on June 15, 1923, and died at age 75 years old on October 24, 1998. John Gillespie was buried at Riverside National Cemetery Section 46A Site 2773 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside.

John W Gillespie of Pittston, Luzerne County, PA was born on February 3, 1915, and died at age 78 years old on April 12, 1993.

John J Gillespie of Canonsburg, Washington County, PA was born on December 22, 1922, and died at age 68 years old on August 20, 1991.

John J Gillespie of Kutztown, Berks County, PA was born on August 1, 1914, and died at age 81 years old on December 29, 1995.

John I Gillespie of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on November 21, 1916, and died at age 60 years old in December 1976.

John F Gillespie of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on June 24, 1921, and died at age 85 years old on June 14, 2007.

John B Gillespie of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on February 28, 1907, and died at age 77 years old in November 1984.

John J Gillespie of Flourtown, Montgomery County, PA was born on August 24, 1916, and died at age 84 years old on May 7, 2001.

John J Gillespie of New Jersey was born on February 8, 1897, and died at age 68 years old in July 1965.

John A Gillespie of Bronx, Bronx County, NY was born on September 14, 1906, and died at age 63 years old on March 23, 1970. John Gillespie was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 2S Site 3487 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale.

John Gillespie of Scotland Australia was married to Isabel Anne Craig (Barrie) Gillespie in 1895. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Gillespie.

Obituary: Dizzy Gillespie: John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie, trumpeter, composer, band leader, born Cheraw South Carolina 21 October 1917, died Englewood New Jersey 6 January 1993. WELL, yes, they do come any bigger than Dizzy Gillespie, but not much. His great achievement was to take jazz by the scruff of the neck in the middle Forties and to change it to fit the radical ideas which had been forming in his mind for several years before. The inspired work and development of those ideas led him to become one of the biggest single influences in the history of the music. 'Work' is the right word, for Dizzy was not a natural genius in the manner of Art Tatum or Charlie Parker. True, he was inspired, but his creations didn't have the almost divine momentum and natural authority which distinguished the solos of the other two men. Gillespie was a thinker and a teacher who changed the methods of jazz trumpet playing forever and stretched the range of big-band jazz as he took it beyond the age of swing into what became known as the bebop era. In his early days during the Thirties it seemed unlikely to most of his colleagues that he would ever amount to much. In an era when, to the public, the trumpet was dominated by the great majesty of Louis Armstrong or by the more florid lush sound of Harry James, Gillespie played with a pinched tone and poor intonation. 'He was trying for harmonic evolution,' recalled Milt Hinton, the bassist and colleague of Dizzy's in the Cab Calloway band, 'and his tone was very thin and weak. He improved it later.' Gillespie was a volatile young man with a sharp sense of humor and a fast resort to violence. These characteristics were intensified by the weekly beatings his father gave him as a matter of course during his childhood. He became a natural rebel, proud of his achievements in the face of authority. 'Not bad for a South Carolina high school dropout,' he would boast to a concert audience after a particularly good solo. His humour became a legend, and often came to his rescue in difficult situations. He was criticised for clowning on stage as a guest in the forbidding and sombre setting of a concert by the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, but he pointed out that, intimidated by the surroundings, the only way he could overcome his nerves was by joking with the men in his quintet. 'I would like to introduce the members of the quintet,' he would say at the beginning of a concert. He then went through the ritual of introducing the bass player to the drummer, the pianist to the guitarist and so on. Gillespie's father was a bricklayer who played several musical instruments. He died when Gillespie was 10, and Dizzy took up trombone and trumpet two years later. He ran a trio in his home town before taking up a scholarship at Laurinberg Institution in North Carolina. This he abandoned in 1935 before his last year and joined Frank Fairfax's band in Philadelphia where he was first nicknamed 'Dizzy'. When he was chosen to replace his idol Roy Eldridge in Teddy Hill's band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York in 1937 his rise to fame began. But it was to be a long one, fraught with incident. Hill's band broadcast from the Savoy Ballroom, and amongst the soloists was the legendary tenor saxophonist Chu Berry, with whom Gillespie was to work again when the two played for Cab Calloway. Gillespie was already developing revolutionary musical thoughts when he joined Cab Calloway in 1939. 'I don't want you playing that Chinese music in my band,' Calloway said. Gillespie found a sympathetic student in the free-thinking bassist Milt Hinton and in their spare time the two men would climb to the rooftop of whatever theatre they were working in and play duets together, probing new ways into the harmonic structures of jazz. It was during this period that Gillespie, touring through Kansas with Calloway, first met Charlie Parker, the altoist who was later to share the high priesthood of bebop with him. Back in New York he joined the coterie of young musicians who played in after-hours jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse. His fellow experimenters included Thelonious Monk, Parker and Kenny Clarke. On one occasion while Dizzy was with Calloway in 1941, the trumpeter Jonah Jones, Calloway's favourite, threw spitballs around the band while Cab was at the microphone. Calloway thought the offender had been Gillespie and in the row which ensued backstage Gillespie drew a knife and cut Calloway with it. Gillespie was fired of course. He subsequently worked briefly in the bands of Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Hopkins, Les Hite, Lucky Millinder, Charlie Barnet, Fletcher Henderson and Benny Carter. On Millinder's record of 'Little John Special' Gillespie played what is the first fully formed bebop solo on record, although he had burgeoned against the edges of swing as early as Lionel Hampton's 1939 'Hot Mallets'. Gillespie led his own small band at the Downbeat Club in Philadelphia in 1942 before joining Earl Hines for several months. By now he was becoming a powerful influence on younger musicians. The trombonist Benny Green remembered: 'I used to listen to Diz a lot. He sat right behind me in the Hines big band. Quite a few of the men in the band couldn't understand what he was doing, though they admired his control and execution. I didn't understand too much of it, either, but I liked it. He would take me to his house and show me on the piano the alternate chords and other things he was doing. It was like going to school. It opened up a new era for me.' The Hines band included Charlie Parker, who at that point was playing tenor, Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. Eckstine became such a crowd-puller that in June 1944 he was able to leave Hines to form his own big band, taking several of Hines's stars with him including Parker and Gillespie. The band became the main incubator for bebop, the onomatopoetically titled new music. At this period Gillespie also became a member of the Duke Ellington band for four weeks, and co-led a band with the virtuoso bassist Oscar Pettiford at New York's Onyx Club.

John Henry Gillespie of Mansfield Australia was born in 1874 in Mansfield, and died at age 44 years old in 1918 in Ewick.

John P Gillespie of Browns Mills, Burlington County, NJ was born on September 26, 1921, and died at age 86 years old on April 17, 2008. John Gillespie was buried at Bg William C Doyle Vet's Mem Cem Section N Site 19 350 Provinceline Road, in Wrightstown.

John W Gillespie of Denver, Denver County, CO was born on October 22, 1947, and died at age 54 years old on May 25, 2002. John Gillespie was buried at Ft. Logan National Cemetery Section 25 Site 1254 4400 West Kenyon Avenue, in Denver.

John Richard Gillespie of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM was born on April 19, 1921, and died at age 88 years old on September 6, 2009. John Gillespie was buried at Santa Fe National Cemetery Section 16 Site 275 501 North Guadalupe Street, in Santa Fe.