Dizzy Gillespie Playing While Attending Pbs Taping "Performance in The White House Series" with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz in The East Room

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Dizzy Gillespie Playing While Attending Pbs Taping "Performance in The White House Series" with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz in The East Room

1982

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SNAC Resource ID: 11620205

Ronald Reagan Library

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Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993

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Dizzy Gillespie (born John Birks Gillespie, October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina - January 6, 1993 Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. He joined his first professional band in 1935. In the 1940s Gillespie became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz....