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Originally Posted by txtrpt Dizzy was born "John Birks Gillespie"
in Cheraw South Carolina. He went to NYC when he was about
19 or 20 and he studied privately with Roy Stevens at the
Stevens-Costello Embouchure Clinic. as did many other players
in New York at that time . |
Huh????
Diz was born in 1917.
In 1937, he would have been 20. Diz was around Philly at that time.
He had not joined the Cab Calloway band.
And............Roy Stevens was NOT teaching trumpet anywhere
Wilmer