Jimmy Powell (musician) Green on guitar, Al Lucas on bass and Shadow Wilson on drums. In 1956, Powell was a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band that recorded "Groovin' High" live at Birdland with Walter Bishop on piano, Nelson Boyd on bass, Marty Flax on baritone, Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Carl Warwick and Joe Gordon on trumpets, Benny Golson and Ernie Wilkins on tenor, Ernie Henry and Phil Woods on alto saxes, Roy Levitt and Melba Liston on trombones. He went on to record several albums with Gillespie. Jimmy Powell (musician) James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an
Gillespie Road Gillespie Road Gillespie Road is a road in Highbury, north London, running east-west along the north side of the Arsenal Stadium, previously home of Arsenal Football Club. Arsenal Underground station was originally named "Gillespie Road", before being given its current name in 1932 following pressure from the club. At the time of Arsenal's move to the nearby Emirates Stadium in July 2006, an email was circulated by supporters of rival club Tottenham Hotspur inviting petitions to the Mayor of London, asking him to give the station back its original name which proved unsuccessful. The "Gillespie Road" name, however, is famously