Dizzy Gillespie
π¬ Critics Choice Nominee
Director
Les Blank
Status
Released
Release Date
1964-01-01
Storyline
This is Les Blankβs earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from traditional Jazz to βBebopβ in mid-1940s America. The film includes rare images of Gillespie playing on his famous bent horn and talking about his beginnings, as well as his theories about music.
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