A Statesman with Sticks
Oct 03, 2019
2 minutes
BY ETHAN IVERSON
rom this vantage point it may be hard to remember just how influential Dizzy Gillespie was in 1960. Not only did he help connect the dots to Afro-Cuban and world music, but the nightly repertoire of Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, and many others borrowed from the book of his big band. From 1954 to 1958
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