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Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie Paperback - 2001
by Shipton, Alyn
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A jazz critic for "The Times" in London now covers all aspects of Dizzy Gillespie's extraordinary life and career, taking readers through the musician's days as a sparkling trumpet soloist in the swing bands of the 1930s to the role he played in creating bebop. 26 halftones.
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- Title Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
- Author Shipton, Alyn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0195144104I5N10
- ISBN 9780195144109 / 0195144104
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.23 x 1.14 in (23.65 x 15.82 x 2.90 cm)
- Reading level 1600
- Library of Congress subjects Jazz musicians - United States, Gillespie, Dizzy
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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The sight of John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, the bell of his upswept trumpet pointing skyward, his cheeks distended into hamster-like pouches, and his ubiquitous beret, goatee, horn-rimmed spectacles, and pinstripe suit, became the archetypal image of a jazz musician.