Originally aired, 4/15/1972
Recognized as one of the leading innovators of bebop in the jazz idiom, 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.