DIZZY GILLESPIE

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Late jazz legend DIZZY GILLESPIE'S trumpet,GRAMMY AWARD,record collection and handwritten sheet music may raise more than $1 million when his estate in northern NEW JERSEY is sold at auction this week.Gillespie,famous for his blowfish like cheeks and bent trumpet,lived in ENGLEWOOD from 1965 until 1993,when he died of pancreatic cancer.Gillespie's wife,Lorraine,died last year,and she wanted family,friends and charities to inherit the proceeds from an auction of their estate,said Harris Stratyner,coexecutor of her will.More than 3,000 items will go on the block in the Sept.14 sale,said Kathy Nye,whose Dawson & Nye auction house is running the event.Nye estimates that Gillespie's 1975 GRAMMY statue for best JAZZ performance will fetch $2,000 to $5,000.She puts the total value of the mementos at a "conservative $1 million".