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Person · 1917–1993

Dizzy Gillespie

Trumpeter and bebop co-founder who brought Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz.

A co-founder of bebop [[jazz]].

With Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie invented bebop, and his Afro-Cuban experiments widened jazz's rhythmic world.

Jazz

On the timeline

  1. November 26, 1945
    Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop on record

    Parker's "Ko-Ko" session — with Gillespie and a young Miles Davis — captures bebop as a recorded revolution.

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