Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award, in 1993.
He joined ASCAP in 1957.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C.
He was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his contributions to Arts and Entertainment.
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982.
Interred at Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA.
Jazz trumpeter, the driving force behind bebop with Charlie Parker.
Played the trumpet solo on "Do I Do" from Stevie Wonder's "Musiquarium" compilation album (1982).
When playing, Dizzie Gillespie's cheeks would expand to extraordinary size, ballooning out far more than the average horn players do. This feature is so pronounced that there is now a medical condition named after this anomaly. Because he was the first, for all practical purposes, to have demonstrated this condition, and because since its recognition by the medical community there have been others who now exhibit similar symptoms, this condition has been officially named, "Gillespie's Pouches.".