On This Day in Jazz History

October 21, 1917: Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie born in Cheraw, SC.

Added: 2008-10-14

More facts on this day:

1912
Tenor saxophonist Don Byas born in Muskogee, OK.

1917
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie born in Cheraw, SC.

1946
Billy Strayhorn begins rehearsing his and Ellington's only Broadway show, "Beggar's Holidy," which closed after only four months.

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