Dizzy Gillespie
A man with brown eyes, and black hair, weighing 162 pounds, atfive feet nine inches tall, and winner for the best trumpeter of 1956 in the Down Beat poll must be Dizzy Gellespie. Dizzy was born on October 21, 1917 as John Birks Gillespie from Cheraw north Carolina. He was the ninth and last child of John and Lottie Gillespie. Dizzy was given early instrumental training by his father, who was the teacher and director of a local band. This in turn meant there was many instruments in their home. Dizzy ended up learning to play the trumpet, piano, drums, and the trombone. At age of ten Dizzy's father died, leaving Dizzy with the ability to play an organize his first band at age fourteen. At that age he already acquired a reputation for his prowess on the trumpet. Dizzy ended up winning a scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute, where he studied in theory and harmony. In 1935 Dizzy moved to Philadelphia, and got a job playing in the Frank Fairf
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