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The basic thing about jazz music is putting the notes to rhythm, not the other way around.... You can take just one note and put all kinds of different rhythms to the note and with just that one note everybody is clapping their hands and dancing and shouting.

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Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

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Africa hit me all at once in those little clubs in Spanish Harlem. Got right into my marrow. I found my musical heritage, my roots there. African slaves in America were not allowed to practice their own religions or to use the drum.. The Africa they wouldn't let us have in South Carolina I discovered for myself in East Harlem.

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Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Born: October 21, 1917
Died: January 6, 1993 (aged 75)
Bio: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Known for:
  1. Bird and Diz (1952)
  2. Sonny Side Up (1957)
  3. For Musicians Only (1958)
  4. Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)

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