Movies: Dizzy Gillespie

A 4 part documentary about jazz musician / actor Slim Gaillard with interviews, archival footage & performances....

Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the 1940s in the bars of New York and LA, and became known as cool jazz....

The Monterey Jazz Festival was established in 1958 by impressario Jimmy Lyons who has hosted an enormous amount of music at this idyllic location. Against this beautiful seaside setting in Northern California, one spends a pleasent weekend listening ...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000....

An account of the first European tour of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith and his trio in 1965, replete with backstage footage and music....

Didn't We Ramble On is a documentary about the tradition of marching bands in African-American culture. It focuses particularly on the historical roots of marching bands in West African culture and features narration by Dizzy Gillespie....

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Dizzy Gillespie dazzled the world with his talent as one of the pioneers of be-bop and Latin jazz, but with his puffed-out cheeks, bent trumpet and quick wit, he also was a great showman....

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A documentary that covers the life of Dizzy Gillespie....