Dizzy Gillespie - The Chronological Classics: 1953-1954 '2006

Artist	Dizzy Gillespie Related artists
Album name	The Chronological Classics: 1953-1954
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Date	2006
Genre	Jazz
Play time	70:35
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	295 MB(+3\%)
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Impromptu (7:48)
02. Manteca Theme/Contraste/Jungla,Rhumba-Finale/6/8 (16:21)
03. Sugar Hips (5:16)
04. Hey Pete (5:08)
05. One Alone (3:02)
06. Money Honey (2:30)
07. Night in Tunisia (4:19)
08. Caravan (7:20)
09. Con Alma (5:05)
10. Blue Mood (3:29)
11. Rails (3:30)
12. Devil and the Fish (3:22)
13. Rumbola (3:25)

Volume ten in the Classics Dizzy Gillespie chronology documents this trumpeters
recording activities from December 9, 1953 to June 8, 1954. As one of producer
Norman Granzs many star players, Diz was able to organize both hard bop and
Cuban-styled bop bands comprised of able improvisers. The opening track,
Impromptu, is a nearly-eight-minute jam taken at 75mph by the Dizzy
Gillespie-Stan Getz Sextet with lightning-fingered pianist Oscar Peterson,
guitarist Herb Ellis (heard here in an unusually rambunctious mood); bassist Ray
Brown, and drummer Max Roach. The 20-piece big band assembled on May 24, 1954
recorded a piquant 16-and-a-half-minute Manteca suite in five movements using
arrangements by Chico OFarrill. The personnel listing is extraordinary, with
J.J. Johnson, Ernie Royal and Quincy Jones in the brass section with Diz; Hilton
Jefferson, Hank Mobley, Lucky Thompson and Danny Bank in the reed department, as
well as two bassists and four expert Latin American percussionists augmenting
the kit drumming of Charlie Persip. On the following day, four members of this
mammoth ensemble returned to form a quintet; in addition to pianist Wade Legge
and bassist Lou Hackney, Hank Mobley was the designated saxophonist for this
assignment, a relaxed blowing session with two vocals by the leader. Gillespie
put together an octet for the next date, which took place on June 3, 1954, using
flautist Gilbert Valdez and a lively Latino rhythm section including conga
master Candido Camero. Four titles cut on June 8, 1954 by the Dizzy Gillespie
Sextet featured trombonist Jimmy Cleveland in addition to the five men who
comprised the Quintet from two weeks earlier. (Although a note in the enclosed
discography claims that Cleveland is omitted on Rumbola, he is clearly audible
throughout). This last session, and indeed this entire segment of Gillespies
career, resulted in substantial music of great passion and depth. Blue Mood is
particularly satisfying because Gillespie, like Charlie Parker, was an adept
bluesman.