Photograph: 17-year old John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (2nd row, far left) at the Laurinburg Institute. Laurinburg Institute is a historic African American preparatory school in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Laurinburg provided Dizzy with a wonderfully nurturing environment for musical and personal growth.

A young Dizzy Gillespie (born John Birks Gillespie), who would later become one of jazz music's most influential and iconic trumpeters and bandleaders.

The Laurinburg Institute was founded in 1904 by Emmanuel Monty and Tinny McDuffie at the request of Booker T. Washington.
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993)
The youngest of nine children of Lottie and James Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina.[12] His father was a local bandleader,[13] so instruments were made available to the children. James died when Dizzy was only ten years old.

Gillespie started to play the piano at age four;[14] by the time he was 12, he taught himself how to play the trombone and the trumpet.

From the night Gillespie heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician.[15] He won a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina, which he attended for two years before accompanying his family when they moved to Philadelphia in 1935.[16][17].
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