‘deauville’ / ‘normandy’ / ‘france’
’20 JULY 1991′
(age 73)
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/ɡᵻˈlɛspi/
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’21 october 1917′ – ‘6 january 1993’)
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(born in ‘south carolina’)
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(“John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie” was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer)
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(AllMusic’s Scott Yanow wrote:
“Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to jazz were huge.
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of ‘Miles Davis’ and ‘Fats Navarro’ instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis’s emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy’s style was successfully recreated [….]
Arguably ‘Gillespie’ is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time”)
(‘Gillespie’ was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of ‘Roy Eldridge’ but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz)
(his ‘beret’ and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing ‘bebop’)
(in the 1940s ‘Gillespie’, with ‘Charlie Parker’, became a major figure in the development of ‘bebop’ and ‘modern jazz’)
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(he taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters ‘Miles Davis’, ‘Jon Faddis’, ‘Fats Navarro’, ‘Clifford Brown’, ‘Arturo Sandoval’, ‘Lee Morgan’, ‘Chuck Mangione’, balladeer ‘Johnny Hartman’, and one of Gillespie’s final pupils before his untimely death,
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(so says ‘robert stewart’)
(“the famous saxophonist”)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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