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Buster Harding

Born: March 19, 1917

Dizzy Gillespie: Four Classic Albums

by David Rickert
January 31, 2011

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few jazz musicians equally adept (and influential) in small groups and fronting big bands. After the bebop heyday, he spent the fifties equally divided between smaller groups and a larger orchestra. His days as a bebop pioneer and a developer of Afro-Cuban music behind him, he now had a ...