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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dizzy Gillespie

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina and died in Englewood, New Jersey... more


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