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13171_7315_dizzy_gillespie_on_jazz
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1956
B&W

Dizzy Gillespie on jazz and rock n’ roll. MS of four person jazz group playing with Dizzy on the right. Camera pans and zooms into his face as he plays the trumpet with sunglasses on. He is asked what his definition of jazz is. He says that it is the marriage between African rhythm and European harmony. MS of him playing with band. He is asked what he thinks of rock n’ roll. He says the white people just got hip to it.