Dizzy Gillespie Gillespie left Eckstine's band because he wanted to play with a small combo. A "small combo" typically comprised no more than five musicians, playing the trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass and drums. Bebop was known as the first modern jazz style. However, it was unpopular in the beginning and was not viewed as positively as swing music was. Bebop was seen as an outgrowth of swing, not a revolution. Swing introduced a diversity of new musicians in the bebop era like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Oscar Pettiford, and Gillespie. Through these musicians, a new vocabulary of musical
Dizzie Tunes 1966 and starring Wenche Myhre. Their next revues were "Syv glade lerker på en blå gren" from 1969 and "Show før jo heller" from 1971. In 1972 singer and actress Grethe Kausland starred at the revue "På scenekanten", and she later regularly performed with the group. Other revues were "Memories of Music" from 1980 and "The show must go home" from 1984. The 1988 revue "Festsprell i Dizzie Tider" had Hege Schøyen and Jon Skolmen as guest stars, and "Dizzie og Damene" at Chat Noir in 1993 had Elisabeth Andreassen and Ellen Nikolaysen as guest performers. In their comedy routines