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
Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban jazz was successful because it never decreased in popularity and it always attracted people to dance. Gillespie's most famous contributions to Afro-Cuban music are "Manteca" and "Tin Tin Deo" (both co-written with Chano Pozo); he was responsible for commissioning George Russell's "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", which featured Pozo. In 1977, Gillespie met Arturo Sandoval during a jazz cruise to Havana. Sandoval toured with Gillespie and defected in Rome in 1990 while touring with Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra. During the 1964 United States presidential campaign the artist, with tongue in cheek, put himself forward as an independent write-in