Dizzy Reece

This article is about the Jamaican jazz trumpeter. For the British rapper and MC, see Dizzee Rascal.
Dizzy Reece
Birth nameAlphonso Son Reece
Born (1931-01-05) 5 January 1931 (age 93)
Kingston, Jamaica
Genres
OccupationTrumpeter

Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece (born 5 January 1931)[1] is a Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter.[2] Reece emerged within London's burgeoning bebop jazz scene during the 1950s[3] and went on to become a leading proponent of hard bop jazz in New York City.[4]

He later experimented with other jazz sub-genres in the late 1960s and 1970s, and continues to remain active in performance and composition.[5] Reece's contribution to the jazz idiom is considered influential and he is often identified as one of jazz's great trumpet players.

  1. ^ The History of Jazz and the Jazz Musicians - Dizzy Reece January 5 1931 -- Trumpet. Lulu Press, Inc. 13 March 2013. ISBN 9781257544486. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  2. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 350/1. ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
  3. ^ Tackley, Catherine (2014). Race, identity and the meaning of Jazz in 1940s Britain. Farnham Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. pp. 11–26. ISBN 978-1-4094-6914-8.
  4. ^ Chinen, Nate (2007). "Blasts From the Bebop Past of an Elusive Trumpeter". The New York Times. No. Jan. 9. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
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