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Danilo Perez to salute mentor Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the critical architects of bebop, the modern jazz style that took root in the mid-1940s. But within just a few years, Gillespie was also marrying Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz, a prescient innovation that in many ways presages today's omnipresent interest in world-music fusions.

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01:59 on April 8 2010

Danilo Perez to salute mentor Dizzy Gillespie

Detroit Free Press — Dizzy Gillespie was one of the critical architects of bebop, the modern jazz style that took root in the mid-1940s. But within just a few years, Gillespie was also marryi... more info

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