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(gə-lĕs′pē), John Birks Known as "Dizzy." 1917-1993.

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who was a key leader in the bop movement.

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Gillespie

(ɡɪˈlɛspɪ)

(Biography) Dizzy, nickname of John Birks Gillespie. 1917–93, US jazz trumpeter

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Gil•les•pie

(gɪˈlɛs pi)

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John Birks, ( “Dizzy” ), 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Gillespie - United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)

Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie

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Jos's position in life was not grand enough to entitle him to a house in Moira Place, where none can live but retired Members of Council, and partners of Indian firms (who break, after having settled a hundred thousand pounds on their wives, and retire into comparative penury to a country place and four thousand a year); he engaged a comfortable house of a second- or third-rate order in Gillespie Street, purchasing the carpets, costly mirrors, and handsome and appropriate planned furniture by Seddons from the assignees of Mr.

He dined once or twice a week in Gillespie Street and bullied the servants and his relations there, just as he did in Russell Square.

When it was announced that the young gentleman was expected in Gillespie Street to dine with his mother, Mr.

That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day; that buttony boy sprang up and down from the box with Emmy's and Jos's visiting-cards; at stated hours Emmy and the carriage went for Jos to the Club and took him an airing; or, putting old Sedley into the vehicle, she drove the old man round the Regent's Park.

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I was p****d off when he used our firm's PS1m to buy Rangers

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Dorothy Gillespie (1920-2012) was a prolific and successful artist, widely exhibiting her art in solo exhibitions from the late 1940s well into the twenty-first century.