When she was just 16-years-old, she was performing with some of the great names of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.

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In the early 1950s, he was blown away by the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

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But because of the nature of instrumentation and the technology, it was always done through the person, through Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet or Charlie Parker's saxophone.

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