Character Relationship Map: Improvisation

Characters

• Self (played by Count Basie) — protagonist
• Self (played by Duke Ellington) — supporting
• Self (played by Ella Fitzgerald) — supporting
• Self (played by Dizzy Gillespie) — supporting
• Self (played by Charlie Parker) — supporting
• Self (played by Coleman Hawkins) — supporting
• Self (played by Oscar Peterson) — supporting
• Self (played by Lester Young) — supporting
• Self (played by Buddy Rich) — supporting
• Self (played by Ray Brown) — supporting
• Self (played by Hank Jones) — supporting
• Self (played by Harry Edison) — minor
• Self (played by Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen) — minor
• Self (played by Flip Phillips) — minor
• Self (archive footage) (played by Joe Pass) — minor
• Self (played by Bobby Durham) — minor