An influential jazz master has died.
When I was a budding trumpet player there were two major influences on the evolution of the trumpet in jazz: Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Oh, there were others to be sure: Freddie Hubbard was coming into his own, and there were those who hung on every note that Chet Baker played, but by and large everyone was trying to sound like Diz or Miles. (I can remember once attending a concert by a then-teenaged ...
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