Dizzy Gillespie
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Don’t you just love those google doodles?
This one is to celebrate the 93rd birthday of jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. He started to play the piano at age four, the trumpet and trombone by age 12. He is one of the major innovators of bebop, which was the first modern form of jazz, Read more