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Lawyers for Bebop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie filed suit in federal court in Rochester, N.Y. against a motorist who "wantonly, recklessly and negligently" ran Dizzy down while he was bicycling in nearby Geneva last August. Dizzy's injuries are responsible, said his lawyer, for the fact that he can "no longer reach above Trumpet-Maestro Louis Armstrong's high C and blacks out trying to reach high notes." Since, as a result, Gillespie "has been forced to reduce the size of his band from 14 to five persons."...
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