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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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.
You can watch Dizzy Gillespie in United States through the following streaming services: The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Criterion Channel, Stingray Djazz Amazon Channel, Qello Concerts by Stingray Amazon Channel
You can watch Dizzy Gillespie in United States through the following streaming services: The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Criterion Channel, Stingray Djazz Amazon Channel, Qello Concerts by Stingray Amazon Channel
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