Dizzy Gillespie

Duration: 20

Creator: FLOWER FILMS 10341 SAN PABLO AVE EL CERRITO CA 94530

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Features Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpet player who, with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and a few others, changed jazz into "bop" in the 1940's. Shows Dizzy playing with his band, demonstrating his music theory and talking about his beginnings. , Les Blank's earliest music film focuses on the trumpet player who, along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and others, sparked the change from jazz into bop in the 40's. Dizzy talks about his beginnings and his music theories and plays selections on that famous horn.

Complete Record: Features Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpet player who, with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and a few others, changed jazz into "bop" in the 1940's. Shows Dizzy playing with his band, demonstrating his music theory and talking about his beginnings. , Les Blank's earliest music film focuses on the trumpet player who, along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and others, sparked the change from jazz into bop in the 40's. Dizzy talks about his beginnings and his music theories and plays selections on that famous horn. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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