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Dizzy Gillespie - CD
- Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1954
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 731451705229
- Item Number: 248513X
- Release date: 05/07/2002
- 1. Manteca Theme
- 2. Contraste
- 3. Jungla
- 4. Rhumba-Finale
- 5. A Night in Tunisia
- 6. Con Alma
- 7. Caravan
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Pairing Dizzy Gillespie with Cuban arranger/composer Chico O'Farrill produced a stunning session which originally made up the first half of a Norgran LP. O'Farrill conducts an expanded orchestra which combines a jazz band with a Latin rhythm section; among the participants in the four-part "Manteca Suite" are trumpeters Quincy Jones and Ernie Royal, trombonist J.J. Johnson, tenor saxophonists Hank Mobley and Lucky Thompson, and conga player Mongo Santamaria. "Manteca," written during the previous decade, serves as an exciting opening movement, while the next two segments build upon this famous theme, though they are jointly credited to O'Farrill as well. "Rhumba-Finale" is straight-ahead jazz with some delicious solo work by Gillespie. A later small-group session features the trumpeter with an all-Latin rhythm section, and flutist Gilberto Valdes, who is heard on "A Night in Tunisia" and "Caravan." Both of the Latin versions of these pieces are far more interesting than "Con Alma," as the excessive percussion and dull piano accompaniment add little to this normally captivating theme. Long out of print, this 2002 CD reissue will only be available until May 2005; it is well-worth acquiring. ~ Ken Dryden, Rovi
- Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1954
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 731451705229
- Item Number: 248513X
- Release date: 05/07/2002
- Label: Norgran
- Genre: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Jazz, Jazz
- Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz, World Fusion
- Album Time: 33:05
- 1953-1954
- A Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie
- Anthology [2004]
- At Newport
- At Newport
- Birk's Works: Verve Big Band Sessions
- Blue Moon
- Career: 1937-1992
- Closer to the Source
- Closer to the Source
- Cognac Blues
- Cool Breeze: Big Band Live 1957
- Copenhagen Concert
- Diz and Getz [Remastered] (Import)
- Dizzier and Dizzier
- Dizzy Atmosphere [Quadromania]
- Dizzy Atmosphere [Rajon] (Import)
- Dizzy for President
- Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody with Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra (Import)
- Dizzy Gillespie & Strings
- Dizzy Gillespie Goes Hollywood
- Dizzy Gillespie Meets the Phil Woods Quintet
- Dizzy Gillespie Story
- Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4
- Dizzy on the French Riviera
- Dizzy: The Music of John Birks Gillespie
- En Concert
- Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits Series [Sony]
- Groovin' High [Indigo] (Import)
- Groovin' High [Living Era]
- Have Trumpet, Will Excite! [Expanded]
- Introduction to Dizzy Gillespie: His Best Recordings 1937-1947
- Jambo Caribe
- Jazz After Hours
- Jazz in Paris: The Giant (Import)
- Ken Burns Jazz
- Kusch
- Les Incontournables
- Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival
- Night in Tunisia: Big Band Live 1957
- Odyssey: 1945-1952
- One Night in Washington
- Portrait of Jenny
- Professor Bebop
- Round About Midnight
- Salt Peanuts
- Salt Peanuts
- School Days [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Shaw Nuff
- Showtime at the Spotlite 52nd Street New York City, June 1946
- Sittin' In
- Soul Time
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
- The Best of Odyssey 1945-1952
- The Champ [Bonus Tracks]
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
- The Cool World
- The Dizzy Gillespie Story [Bonus Tracks]
- The Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best of Verve Years
- The Giants of Jazz
- The New Continent
- The Quintessence New York - Chicago: 1940-1947
- Timeless Dizzy Gillespie
- Verve Jazz Masters 10
- To a Finland Station
- Duets: Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
- 1965
- Sonny Side Up
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Dizzy Gillespie
- Matrix/Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
- Sonny Side Up
- Roy and Diz
- Swing Love
- Eternal Triangle
- The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
- Greatest Trumpet of Them All [Bonus Track]
- Roy and Diz
- New Faces
- The Best of Dizzy Gillespie [Pablo] (Import)
- Musician, Composer, Raconteur: Plays & Raps in His Greatest Concert
- Montreux '77 (Import)
- Dizzy's Big 4
- Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
- At the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (Import)
- The Alternate Blues
- Dizzy's Party (Import)
- Digital at Montreux, 1980 (Import)
- The Gifted Ones
- Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
- Absolutely the Best
- Performance
- Jazz in Paris: Cognac Blues (Import)
- Jazz in Paris: Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra (Import)
- Matrix
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1989
- Jazz Casual: Dizzy Gillespie
- At Home and Abroad (Import)
- DIZZY GILLESPIE : SCHOOL DAYS
- School Days
- The Champ
- Triple Play
- Bebop Professor
- Dizzier and Dizzier
- Giants/Portrait of Jenny
- Portrait
- Jazz Casual [Koch]
- The Winter in Lisbon (Import)
- 1946-1947
- 1952
- 1953
- Dizzy for President
- Dizzy Gillespie [Membran] (Import)
- Gillespiana Suite
- The Champ
- Groovin' High [Japan]
- Night and Day
- Dizzy Gillespie : New Wave [remaster]
- Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris
- Bebop Professor
- Soul & Salvation
- Dizzy Digs Paris (Import)
- Groovin' High [Prism]
- Four Classic Albums
- All Star Sessions: 3 Classic Albums Plus (Import)
- Four Classic Albums: For Musicians Only/Roy and Diz #2/Sonny Side Up/Dizzy in Greece
- Eight Classic Albums
- Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie
- Oo Bop
- The Very Best of Jazz
- The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 (Import)
- The Dizzy Gillespie Story: 1939-1950 [Box Set]
- Complete Dial Masters: Modern Jazz Trumpets
- Dizzy in South America: Official U.S. State Department Tour, 1956, Vol. 1
- Dizzy in South America: Official U.S. State Department Tour, 1956, Vol. 2
- Dizzy in South America: Official U.S. State Department Tour, 1956, Vol. 3
- Groovin' High [Naxos]
- Manteca [Jazz Hour]
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1987
- Groovin' High
- Early Years: 1937-1951
- The Winter in Lisbon
- Ultimate Dizzy Gillespie
- An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
- Something Old, Something New
- A Dizzy Retrospective
- Pleyel Jazz Concert 1953
- Plays in Paris
- Pleyel Jazz Concert 1948
- Night and Day [Collector's Edition]
- Dizzy's Big 4 [Analogue]
- Dizzy's Big 4
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1989
- The Jazz Biography
- DIZZY GILLESPIE : SCHOOL DAYS
- Villa Hidalgo
- BD Jazz
- Latino: Anthology 1947-1957
- Bebop Professor
- Have Trumpet Will Excite/Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Import)
- Dizzy Gillespie And His Big Band 1956-1957
- Algo Bueno: The Complete Bluebird/Musicraft Recordings & The Pleyel Concert
- Algo Bueno: The Complete Bluebird/Musicraft Recordings & The Pleyel Concert
- Complete Trumpet Kings Battle: Studio Sessions (Import)
- Groovin High: Guild Musicraft (Import)
- Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival 1985 [Bonus Tracks]
- Live in Paris & Copenhagen 1974
- New Continent [Bonus Tracks]
- Complete Studio Recordings
- Gillespiana
- A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Import)
- Groovin' High [Jazz Hour]
- Manteca [Jazz Hour]
- Back Up: The Carnegie Hall Concert
- Soul Time
- Exactly Like You
- When Be-Bop Was King
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Import)
- Composers:
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Performers:
- Candido Camero - Conga
- Mongo Santamaria - Conga
- Ubaldo Nieto - Timbales
- Alejandro Hernandez - Trumpet
- Charlie Persip - Drums
- Danny Bank - Sax (Baritone)
- Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet
- Ernie Royal - Trumpet
- George Dorsey - Sax (Alto)
- George Matthews - Trombone
- Hank Mobley - Sax (Tenor)
- Hilton Jefferson - Sax (Alto)
- J.J. Johnson - Trombone
- Jimmy Nottingham - Trumpet
- Leon Comegys - Trombone
- Lou Hackney - Bass
- Lucky Thompson - Sax (Tenor)
- Quincy Jones - Trumpet
- Rafael Miranda - Percussion
- Robert Rodriguez - Bass
- Wade Legge - Piano
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Credits:
- David Stone Martin - Original Cover Artwork
- Norman Granz - Original Recording Producer, Liner Notes
- Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
- Austin Brentley - Production Assistant
- Mark Cooper Smith - Production Assistant
- Chico O'Farrill - Conductor, Arranger
- Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer, Composer
- Frank Paparelli - Composer
- Hollis King - Art Direction
- Isabelle Wong - Design
- Ken Druker - Executive Producer
- Kevin Reeves - Mastering
- Bryan Koniarz - Producer
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