For Dizzy Gillespie, Queens Was the Place to Be and to Bop
Briefly

Jam sessions, such as those wonderfully exciting ones held at Minton's Playhouse, were seedbeds for our new, modern style of music, Gillespie wrote in his autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop.
Queens had the charm of the South, conveniences of the northern lifestyle and was close enough to the teeming jazz scene of Harlem without being ensnared.
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