I love Dizzy Gillespie...for his inventiveness, dexterity, utter hipness, warmth, incredible sense of humor, and iconic bent horn. My earliest memory of him was when he and his incredible bullfrog cheeks appeared on the Muppet Show. And my last was the priviledge I had of seeing him play once in a tiny new York Jazz club a year or so before he died. The feeling of love in the room was palpable. In addition to being co-inventor of bebob and one of modern jazz'top trumpeters, he could scat like nobody's business, as on today's track.
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I totally remember him being on the Muppet Show! Did he do a Sesame Street episode too?
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