NIGHT IN HAVANA DIZZY DVD

Movie Description:
The indisputable founding father of "bebop," Dizzy Gillespie remains one of the most recognizable and popular figuresin jazz history today. Duringhis heyday in the 1940s, Dizzy was one of the first American jazz musicians to incorporate theelectrifying sound of Afro-Cuban rythms into a big-bandsetting. Forty years later, the legendary jazz trumpeter was invited to Cuba, the wellspring of his inspiration,to headline the Fifth International JazzFestival in Havana. The journey, as documented in this star-studded film, was a spiritualand triumphal homecomingfor themusical genius.