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Groovin' high
the life of Dizzy Gillespie
By Shipton, Alyn
- ISBN
- 978-0-19509-132-8
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 1999
John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie's wish to be remembered as a humanitarian is well served by jazz critic Shipton's fully realized biography. Since Gillespie's death in 1993, an in-depth biography of this jazz innovator has been eagerly awaited. While Barry McRae's short Dizzy Gillespie: His Life and Times (1989) was an admirable stopgap, S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
