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Born: October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, SC
Years Active: 30 's, 40 's, 50 's, 60 's, 70 's, 80 's, 90 's
Died: January 06, 1993 in Englewood, NJ
Genre: Jazz

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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 not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Someho... Continue Bio >>

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Swing Low Sweet Cadillac (Gerardo Frisina Remix)

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Discography:
2009 Swingin' Low
2002 Toronto Massey Hall 53
2002 Continental
1999 Pleyel, 25 Novembre 1960
1999 Dizzy in South America: Official U.S. State Department Tour, 1956, Vol. 1
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Filmography:
2007 Jumpin' and Jivin', Vol. 1
2006 Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
2001 Music Classics, Vol. 4
1998 Dizzy Gillespie: The Dizzy Gillespie Ages
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Similar Artists: Miles Davis Jon Faddis Machito Doc Cheatham Lester Bowie More >>

Influenced By: Henry "Red" Allen Louis Armstrong Charlie Shavers Roy Eldridge Bix Beiderbecke More >> Followers: Miles Davis Herb Pomeroy Bill Watrous Jon Faddis Burt Bacharach More >>

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