Dizzy Gillespie performing at the Dreamland Ballroom

Title

Dizzy Gillespie performing at the Dreamland Ballroom

Description

This is a photo of Dizzy Gillespie playing at The Dreamland Ballroom in the summer of 1948. Dizzy Gillespie was a legendary bebop and jazz trumpet player and toured nationally beginning in the mid-1940s and continuing for decades later.

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Source

Dreamland Ballroom, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011

Date

1948

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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person

Type

image

Coverage

Omaha (Neb.)

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nom_dreamland_ballroom_0014.jpg

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Citation

“Dizzy Gillespie performing at the Dreamland Ballroom,” History Harvest, accessed December 23, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/160.

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