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/