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December 19, 1957: Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie records "Sonny Side up" with tenor saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt.

Added: 2008-12-10

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1929
Valve trombonist and composer Bob Brookmeyer born in Kansas City, MO.

1949
Drummer Lenny White born in New York, NY.

1957
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie records "Sonny Side up" with tenor saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt.

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