![A smiling Dizzy Gillespie holding a trumpet and wearing dark glasses and a beret](/sites/default/files/2021-12/dizzy-gillespie.png)
Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie in New York City, ca. May 1947. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, William P. Gottlieb Collection.
(1917-1993) Born in Cheraw, SC, Dizzy Gillespie was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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