Although the sheer scope of this double-CD roundup of all of Dizzy's Victor sessions places it most obviously within the evolution of bebop, it is absolutely essential to...
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A fairly standard date from Dizzy Gillespie's mid-'70s tenure at Pablo Records, Dizzy's Party is primarily a straightforward bop session, with the trumpeter backed by a...
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This CD fully (except for a saxophone feature) documents a Paris concert by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, with baritonist Bill Graham (the liners mistakenly list him as...
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The second of two CD volumes of Dizzy Gillespie performances put out by Vogue has the full contents from three of his Paris studio sessions. The great trumpeter heads a...
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Dizzy Gillespie's globetrotting big band of 1956-1957 was one of his finest groups, a very exciting orchestra that at various times had such players as trumpeters Gillespie,...
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This single CD reissues all of the music from two rare Dizzy Gillespie LPs. Dating from 1963-64, the set features the trumpeter's interpretation of the score of the obscure...
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Two relatively obscure, but fine, Dizzy Gillespie albums, Giant and Portrait of Jenny, were combined on this single-CD reissue by Collectables. Although the sound and the...
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This double album is subtitled "Dizzy Gillespie Plays and Raps in His Greatest Concert," an exaggeration to say the least. In reality, this set (which contains some of his...
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This unusual session consists of a complex six-movement suite by J.J. Johnson featuring Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet over a brass choir (six trumpets, two trombones, two bass...
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With this CD, Telarc squeezes another package out of a month-long salute to the jazz master's 75th birthday at New York's Blue Note jazz club, advertising them as Dizzy...
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Before his 1963 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Dizzy Gillespie had already been actively involved in the influential project. As one of the first performers...
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Reissued on CD in 1998, this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s. His quintet (which includes James Moody on tenor, flute and alto, pianist Kenny...
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The populist Dizzy Gillespie gets full rein in this lively, happy collection of tunes exploring rhythms and idioms from the Caribbean. Gillespie is in an ebullient mood,...
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Diz And Getz 1/1/1954, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
High-powered blowing session with pianist Oscar Peterson and drummer Max...
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Dizzy Gillespie was at the peak of his powers throughout the 1950s, still the pacesetter among trumpeters. This double CD matches Dizzy with Stan Getz, the Oscar Peterson...
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Here we have a summit meeting late in the careers of the pioneering titans of Afro-Cuban jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie fronting the Machito orchestra on trumpet, with Mario Bauza...
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Montreux '77 1/1/1977, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
Of all the trumpeters influenced by Diz, Jon Faddis has come closest to reaching the master's vertiginous heights, and this is a rare opportunity to hear them...
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It took until the mid-'70s for a trumpeter to emerge who could not only emulate Dizzy Gillespie, but display a larger range: Jon Faddis. Unfortunately, Gillespie and his...
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This CD, featuring Dizzy Gillespie playing on the soundtrack of The Winter in Lisbon (a film never properly distributed), is only of minor interest. He wrote the nine themes...
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In 1992, over the course of 47 shows packed into a month of dates, Dizzy Gillespie held forth at the Blue Note in New York City. With a core rhythm section that included...
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Lady Be Good is actually a discount album, released posthumously. In all truth, the years of the recordings, as well as the performers other than Gillespie, are left to the...
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One of the rare jazz two-record sets that's actually a worthwhile expenditure of vinyl and time, 1975's Bahiana is one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest albums of the decade. In...
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This SteepleChase CD for the first time releases music from a Sept. 17, 1959 Copenhagen concert featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet of the period (which...
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This CD finds trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie at age 55, just beginning to slip. Gillespie plays well enough on these nine selections with a fine rhythm section comprised of...
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On this Moon CD, trumpet great Dizy Gillespie is heard in three different settings. Four songs (including a 13-minute version of "Perdido") is from his 1952 visit to Paris...
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Masters of Jazz, in their Dizzy Gillespie CD series, has been reissuing every early selection in which the trumpeter can be heard. In some ways Vol. 4 is the most...
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Dizzy Gillespie (along with altoist Leo Wright, pianist Lalo Schfrin, bassist Bob Cunningham, and drummer Chuck Lampkin) were in peak form for this live performance. Their...
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Because all of Dizzy Gillespie's recordings from the 1946-49 period for Victor are already available on a definitive two-CD set, this single disc sampler is rather pointless...
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A rather fascinating LP, Bebop Enters Sweden features radio broadcasts from Sweden by three American bop groups. Chubby Jackson & His Fifth Dimensional Jazz Group, an...
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This two-disc set collects up live performances from Gillespie's big band period as well as the soundtrack to the film Jivin' in Bebop. The set kicks off with 17 sides...
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Greatest Hits contains a good cross-section of Dizzy Gillespie's best-known RCA numbers, including "A Night in Tunisia," "St. Louis Blues," and "Lover, Come Back to Me."...
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The dozen selections included on this rather brief (35-minute) CD have been reissued many times and in more complete form elsewhere. Originally cut for Musicraft and...
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The Double Six was a French group of singers who specialized in a very beguiling sort of harmonic scat, and Diz and alto saxist James Moody weave their way very nicely...
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This odd (but successful) matchup finds The Double Six of Paris singing vocalese in French to a dozen bebop classics associated with Dizzy Gillespie. Gillepie with pianist...
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At Newport 1/1/1957, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
Rousing live big band renditions of some classics--"Manteca" is especially hot--and a great feature for pianist Mary Lou Williams, "Zodiac Suite." Diz in peak...
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This CD features Dizzy Gillespie's second great big band at the peak of its powers. On the rapid "Dizzy's Blues" and a truly blazing "Cool Breeze," the orchestra really...
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A good but not great set from the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival, this set of four extended standards is nonetheless impressive for its complete rejection of all innovations in...
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Recorded less than a month before their exciting appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra is in excellent form on this date from a concert...
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Under its Compact Jazz series, Verve Records has cobbled together ten tracks from albums made for them, or for the Phillips label, from 1954 to 1964. They find Dizzy...
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A 1980 date with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie playing in an unusual trio setting with guitarist Toots Thielemans and drummer Bernard Purdie. Purdie, a consummate funk and R&B...
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Dee Gee Days 1/1/1952, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
Music from Diz's own short-lived label is a very mixed bag, with some good blowing but also some dated novelty cuts and dubious "comic" vocals. Tenor saxophonist John...
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During 1951-52, Dizzy Gillespie had his own record label, Dee Gee. Having been forced to break up his big band in 1950 due to the impossible financial situation, he was...
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This double CD reissues material formerly on LPs restoring several of the selections that were originally issued in edited form. A pair of unusual jam sessions, on the first...
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One of Diz's most joyous recordings. The combo, featuring alto saxist Leo Wright and pianist Lalo Schifrin, sounds inspired and the trumpeter makes it all seem so easy....
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Long out of print, this highly enjoyable LP finds trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet joined by guitarist Elek Bacsik and percussionist Pepito Riestria for some joyous...
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A 1990 reissue. Nice formative cuts from the 40s. W/ Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Coleman Hawkins, Lucky Thompson, and Allen Eager. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music...
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An early LP on Savoy that gathers Dizzy Gillespie's small-group recordings from 1951-52, The Champ has a lot to recommend it -- songs, sidemen, and performances. With just...
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This two-CD set compiles two unrelated big band recordings by Dizzy Gillespie, probably both made in Europe. In slight of the sloppy packaging by the budget label LRC,...
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The only jazz recording to be named after an Edmund Wilson book finds Diz with Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and a Finnish Rhythm section. Everything meshes without quite...
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This unique set finds Dizzy Gillespie (who was nearly age 65) sharing the frontline with the great Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Backed by a fine Finnish rhythm section,...
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Great cast of players on this live set, including saxists Jackie McLean, Clifford Jordan and Benny Golson, but judged as a Gillespie album it's a lesser set, as the...
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Taken from a month that Dizzy Gillespie was featured at the Blue Note in New York, virtually at the end of his playing career, the 74-year-old trumpeter is quite erratic on...
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His final recording, taken from a month he spent featured at the Blue Note in New York, matches the aging giant with such fellow trumpeters as Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis,...
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For this studio session, Dizzy Gillespie was reunited with arranger Gil Fuller who that year led a specially assembled big band for the Monterey Jazz Festival. A bit of a...
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Dizziest, a two-LP set (the contents of which have mostly been reissued on CD), contains the entire output (except a couple of alternate takes) by Dizzy Gillespie's...
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Many of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's recordings for the Verve label in the '50s and early '60s show him at the peak of his powers. This three-CD set is a sampler of his...
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The product of a day's worth of recording at Nola Studios in 1957, this album is essentially the same as a much older release of the same on Verve, but the master tapes had...
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This has plenty of great players and lots of amazing music. Getz, Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), and Sonny Stitt (as) are great, as are John Lewis (p) and Herb Ellis (g). ~ Ron...
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Although Lalo Schifrin is justifiably praised for his soundtrack work, many jazz purists turn up their noses at his jazz dates, such as his '60s work with Jimmy Smith and...
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This CD combines two complete and related LPs. When Lalo Schifrin joined Dizzy Gillespie's Quintet in 1960, he was encouraged by Gillespie to write an extended work for him....
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This budget-price Drive Archive CD features trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie during two different periods. He is heard along with Charlie Parker on classic versions of "Groovin'...
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This 1992 CD reissue from Japanese Denon is certainly filled with classic music, but this is a so-so, lightweight reissue (a reproduction of a 1950s LP but obviously in a...
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Dizzy Gillespie, who was nearing 72 years old at the time of this concert, headed one of his finest big bands during his later years, The United Nation Orchestra. With such...
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This CD has Dizzy Gillespie's classic Musicraft sides (all except "A Handfulla Gimme"), some of the most famous recordings of his long career. These influential performances...
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New Faces 1/1/1984, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
Dizzy joined by some '80s young Turks including Branford Marsalis and pianist Kenny...
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Gillespie was teamed up with Branford Marsalis for this decent effort. His own trumpet playing had faded quite a bit by this time (he was already age 67), but he sounds...
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An old recording from 1951, this album has been re-released on Columbia from the old Savoy/Regent recordings. The blowing is insane in spots -- in "Pop's Confessin," Dizzy...
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Sonny Side Up 1/1/1958, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
Diz with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. 'Nuff...
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Dizzy Gillespie brings together tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins for four extended cuts, and in the process comes up with one of the most exciting "jam...
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The weak material sinks this CD. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" (which features a lot of joking routines) is amusing the first few times around but fades in time. Otherwise...
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Teaming Dizzy Gillespie with a symphony orchestra may have been a good idea in theory but, by the time of the recordings that comprise this CD, he was already nearing the...
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This LP matches together trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt (on alto and tenor) with an all-star rhythm section (John Lewis or Hank Jones on piano, bassist Percy...
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This 1973 Paris studio session first appeared on the European label America as The Giant, but there has been some confusion as various combinations of songs have appeared...
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Somewhat cryptic title means only that the Oscar PetersonTrio plus frequent collaborator guitarist Joe Pass are joined by a frontline of trumpeters: Diz, Freddie Hubbard and...
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To call this CD (a reissue of a Pablo date) an all-star session would be an understatement. Joining pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown and drummer...
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Jazz collectors can be an obsessive, detail-minded bunch, so when they acquire Vol. 2 of CAP's Dizzy in South America series, they're bound to be frustrated by the fact that...
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The 1945-1946 edition of Gillespie's Classics series finds the bop trumpeter in the kind of top-notch company he kept throughout most of the '40s. Leaving sideman dates for...
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A ragtag of sessions from 1945, 1946, 1952, and 1953. The 1945 cuts (including "Salt Peanuts") also have Charlie Parker aboard; the ones from 1946 are less innovative and...
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As has been its practice, the Verve label continues to repackage as much of its original material in as many combinations as it can get away with. Here it compiles cuts from...
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Dizzy Gillespie's 1960 Paris concert features his quintet with pianist Lalo Schifrin and consists primarily of Schifrin's "Gillespiana Suite," which had just been recorded...
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Classics #1102 focuses on the explosive years of 1947-1949 when Dizzy Gillespie created some of the most innovative big band recordings, combining bebop and Afro-Cuban...
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These are sides cut by Dizzy's short-lived big band, a noble experiment that produced some exciting music during its brief existence. Tracks like "Alone Together," "Manteca"...
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This double CD collects all of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band sides from 1946-1949 for the Bluebird and Musicraft labels, including seven previously unissued cuts. These bands...
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In 1999, jazz collectors were thrilled to learn that Consolidated Artists Productions (CAP) was putting out a three-volume series focusing on Dizzy Gillespie's 1956 tour of...
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When Charlie Parker made the move to start recording old standards with strings, Dizzy Gillespie lost no time in doing the same. These 11 tracks emanate from basically the...
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For bop fans inclined to thorough chronicles of their favorite stars, Classics' Chronological series might be the best place to start. Dizzy Gillespie gets the royal...
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If you're exploring Dizzy Gillespie's '40s output for the first time, the best starting point would be RCA's comprehensive two-CD set The Complete RCA Victor Recordings...
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Here we find trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie leading his orchestra from 1937 through 1947. At various times during this period his band included Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Don...
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The great swing violinist Stuff Smith had not recorded as a leader since 1945 when producer Norman Granz got him to make three albums for Verve during a three-month period....
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The music on this CD, while not necessarily "Absolutely the Best" of Dizzy Gillespie, contains quite a few gems, but all of the music is available in more complete form...
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The album cover offers no clue beyond the notation "live" to indicate the source of these recordings, which find Gillespie and other, uncredited soloists with an electric...
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It's easy and perhaps unfair to take any later jazz album by a trendy, "hot" trumpeter and compare it to a classic like Have Trumpet, Will Excite!. Critics and fans have...
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Pairing Dizzy Gillespie with Cuban arranger/composer Chico O'Farrill produced a stunning session which originally made up the first half of a Norgran LP. O'Farrill conducts...
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It's impossible to grasp the complete scope of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and showman Dizzy Gillespie's influence on jazz. However, this companion release to Ken...
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Veteran jazz producer Orrin Keepnews once stated that there are basically two types of jazz: before Charlie Parker and after Charlie Parker. Keepnews wasn't saying that bop,...
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Planet Jazz contains a good cross-section of Dizzy Gillespie's best-known RCA numbers, including "A Night in Tunisia," "St. Louis Blues" and "Lover, Come Back to Me."...
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Dizzy Gillespie is heard at the height of his vanguard years on the single-disc compilation Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie, featuring 15 remastered tracks,...
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