Happy Birthday Dizzy!
“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”
John Birks Gillespie was born on this day in Cheraw, South Carolina. It was 1917. He died in 1993.
+++++art: photo, of Thelonious Monk and Gillespie by Paul Ryan
(via thesmithian)
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