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Dizzy Gillespie interview
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was...
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