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220
ITS NATURE
mediately after 36 measures by Gillespie. Eldridge spars gingerly for the first two measures, playing the chromatic triplets (fourth through fifth) that became a jazz cliche" in the swing era and were constantly used by Fats Waller and Basie, Swinging up to the flatted seventh to establish that this is, after all, a blues, he
john (dizzy) GILLESPIE / Jessica's Day