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      To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs

      by Dizzy Gillespie
      Published
      Jul 1979
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      Pages
      552
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      You don't have to know John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically driven upbringing to become a jazz mastermind, founding the bebop movement and giving rise to Afro-Cuban music.

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      First Edition Jul 1979 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385120524 ISBN10 0385120524
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