John Birks Gillespie or better known as Dizzy Gillespie was born on October 2, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. Dizzy was the youngest of nine children. Unfortunately his father died when he was only ten years old. Two years after his father died he started to teach himself to play trombone and trumpet and he later learned to play cornet. When he was old enough he attended Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. While there he practiced the trumpet and piano intensively, still without formal guidance
Icela Trujillo Mr. Todd Campbell Music 112, Research Paper on Jazz May 5, 2015 “Drug Addictions Killed Jazz Talent” Drug addictions killed Jazz talent in their early stages of their career. Drugs was a main issue for some jazz composers to lost time and fame by using drugs. Their names could have made it to the top of the music charts but drugs led them to an early death or away from music. One composer who lost his life to alcohol was Leon Bix Beiderbecke or better known as Bix. The second was