FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats

By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others , like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member of the famed Jenkins Orphanage Band of Charleston, who was a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra; and Charleston native, guitaris...

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