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John Birks Gillespie

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Noun1.John Birks Gillespie - United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)


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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - John Birks Gillespie - Better known as Known better as Dizzy
And if you believe, as I do, that jazz--not literature, not dance, not drama, but jazz-- is the American Sublime, then I needn't try to convince you that the passing of John Birks Gillespie, born 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina, is a moment of high solemnity in the secret, psychic history of the republic.
 
 
 
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