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John Birks 'Dizzy' GIllespie: October 21, 1917. (Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, was born this day in Cheraw, SC)(This Week in Black History)(Brief Article)
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October 27, 1997
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October 21, 1917
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born in Cheraw, SC, on this day. Gillespie, an extraordinary jazz trumpeter, along with other jazz greats (Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke), developed a style of jazz which improvised rhythms known a...
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