There, he began to use an instrument with its bell pointed at a 45-degree angle, and also began to play original compositions like Woody n' You, Groovin' High, and Con Alma.
This musician found work with Cab Calloway's band, but Calloway didn't take kindly to this musician's adventurous solos, which he branded "Chinese music."  However, he got himself thrown out of the Calloway band for another reason entirely, as he stabbed the bandleader in the leg with a switchblade after Calloway accused him of firing spitballs at him during a concert.  Later, he moved up to Harlem, where he helped to plant the seeds of bebop at Minton's Playhouse.  There, he began to use an instrument with its bell pointed at a 45-degree angle, and also began to play original compositions like Woody n' You, Groovin' High, and Con Alma. FTP, name this lightning-fingered jazz trumpeter, who composed A Night In Tunisia.
This musician found work with Cab Calloway's band, but Calloway didn't take kindly to this musician's adventurous solos, which he branded "Chinese music."  
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie