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 | | The youngest of nine children, John Birks Gillespie began playing trumpet at fourteen after briefly trying the trombone. |
 | | John's earliest professional jobs were with the Frankie Fairfax band. |
 | | Among those he played with in addition to Parker are such jazz legends as Charlie Barnet, Les Hite, Lucky Millinder, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Gene Ammons, Yusef Lateef, Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, John Coltrane, John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke, Billy Eckstine and Ray Brown. |
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