1. 2017-10-06. Hearing "The Divinity in the Music": Dizzy Gillespie Remembered at 100. Bahá'í World News Service. Reflections on the life of Gillespie and how his Baha’i beliefs seemed to inspire and drive his work. Includes photographs. Articles.
2. 2001. Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie. Alyn Shipton. Roughly 2-3 page excerpt from book. Excerpts.
3. 2001. Artist Biographies from Arts Dialogue. Sonja van Kerkhoff, comp. A list of artist profiles which can be found in the Bahá'í Association for the Arts newsletter (offsite). Linked articles include poetry, photography, and samples of visual art. [this list last updated 2014] Biographies.
4. 2000. Gillespie, Dizzy. Barry Kernfeld. Gillespie (1917-1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer; his acceptance of the Bahá'í Faith is briefly mentioned.  Biographies.
5. 1999-07. Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, by Alyn Shipton: Review. Brad Pokorny. Reviews.
6. 1990/2024. Dizzy Gillespie "One World for All" Concerts: Documentation of a Bahá'í Project. Godrat Rafat. Collection of photos and newspaper articles documenting this series of concerts in 1990 in Berlin, Moscow, and Prague. Presentations.
7. 1989. Pictorial History of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa, 1911 to 1989, A. Various, Lowell Johnson, Susan Ford, Peter Goodman. Documents the growth of the South African Bahá’í community, highlighting its multiracial community life and efforts to promote unity and peace during the apartheid era up to 1989. Books.
8. 1971-1995. 1971-1995: Newspaper articles archive. Various. Collection of newspaper articles from 1971-1995. Newspapers.

1. 1992-11-23 —
   The Second World Congress was held in New York City to commemorate the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh and the completion of the Six Year Plan. It was attended by some 28,000 Bahá'ís from some 180 countries. [BBD240; VV136-141; BW92-93p95-102, 136]
   • Nine auxiliary conferences were held in Buenos Aires, Sydney, New Delhi, Nairobi, Panama City, Bucharest, Moscow, Apia and Singapore. [BINS283:3-4]
   • For pictures see [BINS283:9-10], [BW92-3p100] and [VV136-141]
   • "New York will become a blessed spot from which the call to steadfastness in the Covenant and Testament of God will go forth to every part of the world." - 'Abdu'l-Bahá [AWH77-8 90-1 105-6]
   • On the 25th of November a concert was held in Carnegie Hall as a birthday tribute to Dizzy Gillespie called "Celebrating the Bahá'í Vision of World Peace". [VV141]
   • On the 26th of November Bahá'ís around the world were linked together by a live satellite broadcast serving the second Bahá'í World Congress, the nine auxiliary conferences and the Bahá'í World Centre and it was received by those with access to satellite dish antennas. [BINS283:1–5, 8; BINS286:10; BINS287:4]
   • For the message of the Universal House of Justice read on the satellite link see BW92–3:37–4.
   • For accounts of personal experiences by some of the attendees see In the Eyes of His Beloved Servants: The Second Bahá'í World Congress and Holy Year by J. Michael Kafes.
   • The film, 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Mission to America, made by Elizabeth Martin, was prepared for the World Congress program and also used in the Theme Pavilion. [HNWE45]
2. 1993-01-06 —
   The passing of John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (b. 21 October 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina). He was buried next to his mother in Flushing Cemetery, New York. [VV141]
   • His autobiography was entitled "To Be, or Not...to Bop".
   • He had become a Bahá'í in 1968 at the age of 51.
   • See Bahá'í World 1994-95 pg251 for an article by Anne Boyles entitled "The Language of the Heart: Arts in the Bahá'í World Community" for mention of Dizzy Gillespie.
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