Summary
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.
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Audiences 70GoodWatch 70
Letterboxd · 480 ratings3.5/5
IMDb6.9
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Streams in 20 countries
+10Released
1964
January 1, 1964
62 years ago
Language
English
Original language
Rated
- NRUnited States
Directing · 1
- Les Blank Director