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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ?'l?spi/ (October 21 1917 – January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children. Dizzy's father was a local bandleader, so instrumen... Read More...
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