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.
Cast
Dizzy Gillespie
Self
The Lair
Killer of Men
Attack on Titan
Man
The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2
Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
Zero Fucks Given
Shark Side of the Moon
2048: Nowhere to Run
Come Play
South Park: Post COVID
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Swordsmith Village-
Dashing Through the Snow
Unhappily Ever After
Phas Gaye Re Obama
The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Bandit
My Fault