It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
Now, our music is universal. It shares the rhythmic content of African music, music of the Western Hemisphere and various lands of the East, and has merged this rhythm with European harmonies, the soul of the slaves, the blues, and the spirituals to create jazz.
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| Birth: | 21st October, 1917 |
| Death: | 6th January, 1993 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Composer, Singer |
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge.
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