The 1990 Dizzy Gillespie documentary, To Bop or Not to Be: A Jazz Life, by Norwegian director Jan Horne, left out something that makes it spectacular: narration. Instead, of talking heads providing analysis and biographical information about Gillespie, it simply lets musicians, concert performances and archival footage tell the story. The result is a su…
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