But between his jokes and his good-will work for jazz, we forget what made Dizzy Gillespie great in the first place: He may be the finest trumpet player of all time. He was in Fort Lauderdale on ...

The trumpet never hides. All swagger and sass, it is the boldest instrument in jazz, with the searing sound that clears all else out of its way. It can blaze and wail, shout joy or rage, then ...