Interview with Dizzy Gillespie in Milwaukee

Originally aired, 4/15/1972 Recognized as one of the leading innovators of bebop in the jazz idiom, and called the “Abraham Lincoln of jazz“ Dizzy Gillespie traces the roots of American jazz, describes how he came by his unique-looking trumpet, and tells of his conversion to the Bahá’í faith in an interview by WTMJ-TV host Jim Peck and Jon Boggs, assistant professor in the Music Department of UW-Milwaukee.