Highest rated movie: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
Lowest rated movie: The Hole (1962)
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Movies starring Dizzy Gillespie have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street - released in 2021 - is Dizzy Gillespie's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 19 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dizzy Gillespie is The Hole - released in 1962 - with a score of 55% based on 1 reviews.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge[2] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote: "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".
Dizzy Gillespie has acted in films with Johnny Cash, George Wein, James Earl Jones and Frank Oz.
Dizzy Gillespie has worked with these film directors: John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Stanley Nelson and Bill Flanagan.
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