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Dizzy Gillespie

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Born in:Cheraw, South Carolina,
United States of America
Year of Birth:1917
Year of death:1993

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Trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was one of the founders of bebop. Gillespie (1937, Cheraw, South Carolina) played trumpet in big bands successively Teddy Hill and Cab Calloway. In nightly jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse in New York, he crossed with kindred spirits as saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianist Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke, the limits of the swing by experimenting withmore

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