RonPrice Posted January 26, 2015 Report Posted January 26, 2015 I put together the following compendium of prose and poetry in memory of Dizzy Gillespie who died 22 years ago this month. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie(1917-1993) was an American jazz composer, trumpeter, bandleader, and occasional singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge. But he added layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz. Go to this link if you want to read some of my commemorative prose and poetry: http://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?36522-Dizzy-Gillespie-A-Retrospective Quote
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