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To Be or Not to Bop

by Dizzy Gillespie, Al Fraser · 1979

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This biography of Dizzy Gillespie combines the jazz legendpoca incendiaria.

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Subject
biographyhistory
Themes
music
Setting
USA
Audience
adult

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