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Dizzy Gillespie, His Life.
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On October 21,1917,John Birks Gillespie was born in Cheraw,South Carolina.He was the youngest of 14 childern.His father was a poor farmer and a skilled amateur musician.He played bass in his own band and owned all the instruments because most of the other players were so poor that they would sell t ....
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....le,he was barely getting by.
Since he was a child,his idol was a trumpet player named Roy Eldridge.John
was thrilled to meet and finally replace him in the Cab Calloway band.He
played 3rd trumpet,but was mainly an arranger for the band.Back then
,arrangers would often hand-write parts so they didn’t have to pay a
printer.One day the band was reading a chart and john couldn’t read the
misic.The band started calling him the Dizzy cat because he couldn’t read
the parts.On a.... |
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