This Day in History: Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie Through Photographs and More
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpeter, composer, bandleader - made an enormous mark on
jazz and modern music, playing up until the day he died on Jan. 6,
1993 - 25 years ago this coming Saturday. Among his contributions,
Gillespie was a pioneer of Be-bop, a form of modern jazz he created with
pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Kenny Clarke, guitarist Charlie
Christian and alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. ... [mehr] https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/01/this-day-in-history-celebrating-dizzy-gillespie-through-photographs-and-more/
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