Dizzy Gillespie

As mesmerizing as it was seeing Dizzy Gillespie's cheeks puff out like a bullfrog when he played and to hear his silky smooth music, it was also fascinating to get his comments on things like his approach to entertaining (playing to please himself first and foremost), his innovative combined legato/staccato style, and his early experiences with instruments as a child, where his arms were too short to fully play the trombone. Would he have become another J. J. Johnson had it been otherwise? But speaking of too short (how's this for a slick segue :p), at 24 minutes so was this documentary. It's worth seeing nonetheless, which I've found to be true for all of Les Blank's work.