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Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session ... lived on the tree-lined streets of Queens. While white musicians skedaddled to the suburbs, Black jazz virtuosos sought solace in the neighborhoods ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the ... “Maybe that’s not easy to understand,” Bechet continues. “White people, they don’t have the memory that needs to understand it.

Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval first met Dizzy Gillespie ... echoing through Havana's black neighborhoods. That night, Sandoval managed to play his trumpet for Gillespie — and blew him away.

A star of her time, soprano Marie Selika Williams was the first black musician ... legend Dizzy Gillespie was joined by other jazz luminaries at the White House jazz festival during Jimmy ...