Dizzy Gillespie – Jazz Pioneer & Bebop Symbol
October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993 Dizzy Gillespie was one of the principal developers of bop in the early 1940s, and his styles of improvising and trumpet playing were imitated widely in the 1940s and 1950s. Indeed, he is one of the most influential players in the history of jazz. Gillespie was the youngest … Read more