On this day in 1917, legendary jazz trumpeter “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today October 21, 2023 Oct. 21, 1917 Dizzy Gillespie performing with John Lewis, Cecil Payne, Miles Davis and Ray Brown in the late 1940s. Legendary trumpeter “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. One of the pioneers of “bebop” jazz, he is considered one of the greatest trumpeters to ever play. At 12, he taught himself to play trumpet, dreaming of becoming a jazz musician.
Before he died in 1993 of pancreatic cancer, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Duke Ellington Award for a half-century of achievement as a composer, performer and bandleader.
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