Read more Dizzy Gillespie stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/30759/dizzy-gillespie.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorFri, 25 May 2012 14:38:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64787/1959-the-apex-of-jazz.htmlHarry Kimball<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=227720&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331220835' border='0' />2009 marks the 50th anniversary of jazz’s best year jazz ever, Martin Johnson writes for the Root. 1959 saw canonical discs from genre royalty: “Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue , John Coltrane’s Giant Steps , Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come , Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and two by Charles Mingus,...Miles Davis at Birdland in New York in 1949.http://www.newser.com/story/64787/1959-the-apex-of-jazz.htmlMon, 20 Jul 2009 12:36:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27699/bird-lives-and-he-does-it-in-fanatic-detail.htmlHarry Kimball<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=105009&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401013005' border='0' />A white guy from Queens may be our best link to a music rooted in black history. Phil Schapp grew up in a home full of jazz, and has hosted a radio show obsessed with the music's minutiae for decades, the New Yorker reports. He's liable to digress on Charlie...Charlie Parker.http://www.newser.com/story/27699/bird-lives-and-he-does-it-in-fanatic-detail.htmlSat, 17 May 2008 18:38:43 CDT