I think the movie was called 'Jiving the beBop'? A low budget B-movie aimed at
black audiences and it had Dizzy playing several numbers some of which were
Parker tunes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038654/

Llew Walker

PS. Nice to see some activity here!!

-----Original Message-----
From: charliethebirdparker [mailto:Bicho@...]
Sent: 16 June 2004 22:30
To: charlie-parker@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [charlie-parker] bird on film


hello all,

tony scott studied with stefan wolpe
and i think that for the b movie mentioned earlier in this list only
the soundtrack was from bird and dizzy.
for a complete (as far as i know till now) bird on film see my post
no. 125 from earlier this year. three films are known: one live
performance, one playback and one silent movie.

keep boppinŽ

marcel





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