Reminiscing about the audacious genius of the Grand Wazoo I was talking the other day with my L.A. pal, guitarist-composer-conceptualist...

Bebop architect, Afro-Cuban jazz pioneer, comedian, virtuoso trumpeter and tongue-in-cheek presidential candidate, John Birks Gillespie...

The great gentleman of jazz and swinging sideman to Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan was born on this day 96 years...