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February 16, 2023

Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie standing against a wall with a jacket over his arm, in New York, New York, circa May 1947. Gillespie toured in Eastern Europe and Asia as a Jazz Ambassador.

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February 2023

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future