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September 29, 1947: Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie plays Carnegie Hall with his big band with guests Ella Fitzgerald and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

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• 1933
  Coleman Hawkins and Red Allen record "The Day You Came Along."

• 1942
  Violinist Jean-Luc Ponty born in Avranches, France.

• 1947
  Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie plays Carnegie Hall with his big band with guests Ella Fitzgerald and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

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