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Dizzy Gillespie in London, 1966

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Marc Myers
Oct 20, 2017
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And on this final day of my four-part series of tributes to Dizzy Gillespie, I saved the best for last: In November 1966, Jazz at the Philharmonic was in London. In the following video, we get to hear producer Norman Granz introduce the first jam-session septet (and oh was a group): Dizzy Gillespie (t), James Moody (as, fl), Clark Terry (flh), Zoot Sims…

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