Dizzy
Subtitle: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Published: March 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780688170882
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Jazz; United States; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Jazz musicians; Biography/Autobiography; Gillespie, Dizzy,; General; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; 1917-; 1917-1993
First sentence: John Birks "DIZZY" GILLESPIE ALMOST VOMITED FROM exhaustion as he picked cotton for the first time outside his hometown of Cheraw, South Carolina, in the summer of 1928.