Search results for "Dizzy Gillespie"

Dizzy Gillespie: Groovin' High (1945) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer For his second recording of "Groovin' High" within three weeks and with sim...

Dizzy Gillespie: You Stole My Wife, You Horsethief (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

"Every generation of blacks since slavery," asserted Dizzy Gillespie, "has had to develop its own way of Tomming, of ...

Stuff Smith and Dizzy Gillespie: Rio Pakistan (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

The track "Rio Pakistan" first appeared on the 1957 album Dizzy Gillespie-Stuff Smith, and reappeared on the 1994 CD ...

Dizzy Gillespie: Kush (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Kush, an early civilization centered in North Africa's Nubian region (today's Sudan), flourished from 2000 to 1500 BC...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (Live at Town Hall, 1945) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

With their landmark first studio session still warm on the shelves, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker treated a New ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

                 Trumpeter by...

Dizzy Gillespie (featuring Mary Lou Williams): Selections from Zodiac Suite (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

Zodiac Suite was the first of many long-form compositions Mary Lou Williams produced during her lengthy and distingui...

Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (live 1948) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

                Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE LATIN JAZZ CLASSICS

         Percussionist,  artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's n...

Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (1947 version) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer The “Latin tinge” in jazz dates back at least to Jelly Roll Morton, w...

Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (1946) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Here's Diz & Gang back in Manhattan but minus Charlie Parker, who jumped ship after their holiday engagement at Billy...

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker: Bebop (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

When record collector Robert Sunenblick purchased seven acetate disks from a dealer in 2004, he found – to the deligh...

Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie: Caravan (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

On Gillespie's second recording for Norman Granz's Pablo label, he joins Oscar Peterson for a set of miraculous duets...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Dizzy Gillespie: Jitterbug Waltz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

When Norman Granz founded Pablo Records to help support "older" jazz musicians, Gillespie was a natural choice for a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Charles Mingus: Dizzy Moods (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 19, 08

It seems like such a cliché to refer to a Mingus arrangement as eccentric, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it...

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker: Salt Peanuts (1945 studio version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillespie, photo by Herb Snitzer In 1978 Dizzy Gillespie stole the show at a White House affair honoring j...

Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 02, 08

Whenever Getz and Gillespie shared the same stage, it was more than music . . . it was a battle. Was there some bad ...

Dizzy Gillespie: The Eternal Triangle (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

The 2006 recording by James Moody and Hank Jones of Sonny Stitt's "[The] Eternal Triangle" brings to mind this 1957 v...

Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie: Pretty-Eyed Baby (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

In an interview, Jon Hendricks asked Dizzy Gillespie to demonstrate the evolution of styles by singing a riff as Loui...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Dizzy Gillespie: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer W.C. Handy wrote "St. Louis Blues" after witnessing the British bombardme...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Dizzy Gillespie: Tin Tin Deo (1956 live version) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

                Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss ...

Cab Calloway (featuring Dizzy Gillespie): Pickin' the Cabbage (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 04, 08

Originally released on the Vocalion label, "Pickin' the Cabbage" is often referred to as Gillespie's first attempt at...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

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