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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Les Blank

1964 · 22m

Dizzy Gillespie

January 1, 196422m
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Overview

This is Les Blank’s 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 “Bebop” 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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