Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
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Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

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Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years.
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Paperback, 432 pages
Published July 19th 2001 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published February 28th 1999)
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