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Loc: America's Story: Dizzy Gillespie WebsiteLoc: America's Story: Dizzy Gillespie Website
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Library of Congress
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3rd - 8th
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Loc: America's Story: Dizzy Gillespie

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Dizzie Gillespie helped create a new form of modern jazz called be-bop. It was the predecessor of hip-hop that is so popular today.

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jazz music

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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