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Dizzy Gillespie for President! Revisiting the Jazz Giant’s Quixotic 1964 Campaign

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John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie ran as an independent candidate in 1964 .

Bob Greene : Gillespie was celebrated not only as a great jazz musician but a masterful entertainer.

He says Gillespie ’s candidacy, in its way, was an attempt to push back on both political establishment and divisive forces in the U.S ..

Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie ran for the presidency in 1964 and 1971 .

Gillespie ran with Duke Ellington , Miles Davis and Malcolm X among his Cabinet nominees.

Gillespie said he would eliminate all military alliances, pull out of Vietnam at once.

He also advocated to begin a program to teach jazz in all American high schools.

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76

Informative language

75

Neutral language

23

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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