“Puffed-Cheeked,” Jazz Trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie is born - This Day in History – Oct 21st

Back in 1917 Cheraw, SC, welcomed the birth of a future famous jazz trumpeter, John Birks Gillespie, known as “Dizzy.”  Mr. Gillespie’s ability to play a trumpet was influenced with puffed-out cheeks that imitated a blowfish.  Furthermore, he would play his horn on an upward, tilted 45-degree angle. 

Mr. Gillespie was mentored by bandleader, Cab Callaway and played with the following elite jazz artists: Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Chuck Mangione. 

Mr. Gillespie lived to the age of 75 until he succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 1993.

New York City’s Guggenheim Museum debuts

Back in 1959, NYC’s Fifth Avenue welcomed a new museum that was housed in a unique building that was shaped like a upside down cupcake, The Guggenheim Museum.  This facility was named after Mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim that contained the world’s premiere collections of contemporary art. The unique building was design by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 

This museum has other facilities in Venice, Bilabao, Berlin and Abu Dhabi.

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