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Dizzy and Rudolf

Dizzy Gillespie and Rudolf Nureyev died today, together

Well not - together
but their demise on the same day was a lot to take
I mean apart from the sadness and loss their close friends and family might feel - who will fill their energetic and artful shoes?

It raises the question - does this happen - when "greats" disappear Is there a new genius or prominent talented being nurtured somewhere in India? Is he a teenager in Sumatra or a babe in arms in Rome as we speak? A sort of replacement for those lost and what they offered.