GENERAL: Bird and Diz: Spotlite Mystery Solved

As a jazz journalist and historian, there's nothing I love more than a good jazz mystery. Tell me there's a story that has missing facts or hasn't been resolved, and I'm off to the races. Yesterday, when I spoke with legendary jazz writer Ira Gitler about his fabulous liner notes to the new CD, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: Showtime at the Spotlite (52d Street, New York City, June 1946), something Ira said got me going...

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