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| | African American Review: Diz - blues singer Dizzy Gillespie |
 | | Diz was the leader, the speaker, the political cadre, pushing the music by his playing, by his Dizness. |
 | | After working those gigs, Diz, Bird, and the others would wind up uptown in Harlem after hours, in Minton's and Monroe's uptown house, the black night laboratories of sound, the smoke and whiskey academies of soul, where they gave a new generation their self-consciousness. |
 | | No matter how jive and bloody the U.S. would be, here would come Louie and Diz, and like Louis said, I'm the real ambassador! |
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