Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie didn’t just co-lead a ... May 1945 when five black musicians recorded ‘Hot House’ and ‘Salt Peanuts,’” the French critic André Hodier declared in 1999 ...

Dizzy Gillespie. For those unfamiliar ... Dizzy would re-write his classic song "Salt Peanuts" for his campaign song and they would focus attention on getting his name on the California ballot ...