BOOK/MAGAZINE: Innovative Memoir of Jazz Genius Dizzy Gillespie Back in Print

To Be, or Not... to Bop Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser University of Minnesota Press | 576 pages | 2009 ISBN 978-0-8166-6547-1 | paperback | $19.95 BACK IN PRINT! This extensive biography is intertwined with reflections from famous Gillespie associates Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. They provide numerous perspectives of Gillespie’s start on the road to fame and the spirited times that would follow. To Be, ...

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