How Dizzy Gillespie Pioneered the Jazz Look — esquire.com

Dizzy Gillespie helped invent bebop, the furious buzz that deconstructed jazz—and therefore the blues—and remade it into an entirely more complex, abstract, and intellectual music that perfectly echoed the post-modern era and its myriad uncertainties. He was, with apologies to Miles Davis, the most innovative and technical trumpet player of all time. He was a great composer. He wrote bebop masterpieces "Salt Peanuts" and "A Night in Tunisia." He was probably a genius.

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