GILLESPIE, JOHN BIRKS (DIZZY
). Jazz trumpeter ( in Cheraw, South Carolina). He came from a musical family: his father was a pianist-bandleader in his leisure time, whose band played for local dances, and all the children studied piano. He was surrounded with instruments from earliest childhood, for his father kept the band's instruments at his house. He began piano study at an early age, learned trombone at school, then changed to trumpet when he was about twelve...