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Remembering the great Dizzy Gillespie who was born on this day in 1917. One of the seminal figures of the bebop movement, Gillespie possessed tremendous technique and played with abandon, reaching the highest notes in the trumpet’s range. Gillespie, with saxophonist Charlie Parker and pianist Thelonious Monk, spearheaded the revolutionary jazz style “Bebop”, a reaction to swing, distinct for dissonant harmonies and polyrhythms. It laid the foundation for modern jazz and the musical language that