Movies: Dizzy Gillespie
- 2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
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Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed the world....
- 2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
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An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991)....
- 2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)
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Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became the stage for a political earthquake as the struggle for independence in the Congo put the world on hig...
- 2020
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020)
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This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett....
- 1964
Dizzy Gillespie (1964)
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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 fil...
- 1991
El invierno en Lisboa (1991)
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Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer....
- 2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)
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This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy....
- 1962
The Hole (1962)
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Two men discuss the nature of accidents and the possibility of nuclear war....
- 2018
The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)
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The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington...
- 1995
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar (1995)
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This riveting music documentary traces the history of Jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson, from his early days as Montreal's teenage Boogie-Woogie sensation through his meteoric rise to international celebrity with Norman Granz and the ground-breaking J...
- 1994
A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
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Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a bro...
- 1984
Hello (1984)
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Extraterrestrials contact earth in this delightful fable. Their message is "HELLO" in many languages, and there is a celebration....
- 1964
The Hat (1964)
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Two soldiers patrolling opposite sides of the border between two countries speculate on what the world would be like if there were more cooperation between individuals and nations....
- 1986
Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis (1986)
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A documentary on the music of Miles Davis which contains concert footage from the 1986 New Orleans Jazz Festival and interviews with Miles Davis, Bill Cosby, Keith Jarrett, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, George Benson, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams and R...
- 2004
Improvisation (2004)
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Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977, Joe Pass 1979, Ella Fitzgerald 1979, and Oscar Peterson at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977....
- 1986
The Cosmic Eye (1986)
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Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction....
- 2008
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong (2008)
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Documenting Louis Armstrong's appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival....
- 2024
A Supermarket in Californi (2024)
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Carved to the beat verses of Allen Ginsberg and his eponymous poem, A Supermarket in California paints the most surreal contours of an America watched, dreamed, filtered through the eyes of a poet who meets Walt Whitman in a supermarket and pines for...
- 1958
A Smattering of Spots (1958)
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A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc....
- 2014
Brownie Speaks (2014)
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A native of Wilmington, Delaware, jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown made an outstanding and influential contribution to music. In an era when many musicians were emulating Charlie Parker’s drug abuse, Brown inspired others to achieve greatness while livi...