Dizzy Gillespie he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician. He won a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina which he attended for two years before accompanying his family when they moved to Philadelphia. Gillespie's first professional job was with the Frank Fairfax Orchestra in 1935, after which he joined the respective orchestras of Edgar Hayes and later Teddy Hill, replacing Frankie Newton as second trumpet in May 1937. Teddy Hill's band was where Gillespie made his first recording, "King Porter Stomp". In August 1937 while gigging with Hayes in Washington D.C., Gillespie met a young dancer named Lorraine Willis
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