Dizzy Gillespie - The Chronological Classics '1996-2006

Tracks list

Trumpet virtuoso and bop revolutionary whose desire to innovate helped invent
and define the musical vocabulary for an entire genre.

Dizzy Gillespies contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz
trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex
player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro
instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis emergence in the 1970s that Dizzys
style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any wrong note
fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie
Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was an enthusiastic teacher who wrote down his
musical innovations and was eager to explain them to the next generation,
thereby insuring that bebop would eventually become the foundation of jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie was also one of the key founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz,
adding Chano Pozos conga to his orchestra in 1947, and utilizing complex
poly-rhythms early on. The leader of two of the finest big bands in jazz
history, Gillespie differed from many in the bop generation by being a masterful
showman who could make his music seem both accessible and fun to the audience.
With his puffed-out cheeks, bent trumpet (which occurred by accident in the
early 50s when a dancer tripped over his horn), and quick wit, Dizzy was a
colorful figure to watch. A natural comedian, Gillespie was also a superb scat
singer and occasionally played Latin percussion for the fun of it, but it was
his trumpet playing and leadership abilities that made him into a jazz giant.


Tracks:



Dizzy Gillespie - 1945 {CC, 888}

01. Something For You (2:32)
02. Worried Life Blues (2:54)
03. Empty Bed Blues - Part 1 (2:34)
04. Empty Bed Blues - Part 2 (2:35)
05. I Cant Get Started (3:07)
06. Good Bait (3:01)
07. Salted Peanuts (3:01)
08. Be-Bop (3:10)
09. Whats The Matter Now (2:53)
10. I Want Every Bit Of It (3:12)
11. Thats The Blues (2:58)
12. 4-F Blues (2:22)
13. Dream Of You (2:53)
14. Seventh Avenue (2:56)
15. Sorta Kinda (2:47)
16. Ooh, Ooh, My, My, Ooh, Ooh (2:47)
17. All Too Soon (2:57)
18. Youre Only Happy When Im Blue (3:14)
19. Ten Lessons With Timothy (2:42)
20. Groovin High (1) (2:37)
21. Blue n Boogle (2:57)
22. Groovin High (2) (2:42)
23. All The Things You Are (2:49)
24. Dizzy Atmoshpere (2:47)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1945-1946 {CC, 935}

01. Salt Peanuts (3:17)
02. Shaw Nuff (3:02)
03. Lover Man (3:26)
04. Hot House (3:13)
05. Night And Day (3:22)
06. Weeping Willie (3:17)
07. Everytime I Think Of You (2:37)
08. Baranco Boogie (3:08)
09. Diggin Diz (2:52)
10. Confirmation (2:57)
11. Diggin For Diz (2:54)
12. Dynamo A (3:01)
13. Dynamo B (3:00)
14. When I Grow Too Old To Dream (2:55)
15. Round About Midnight (2:52)
16. 52nd Street Theme (3:06)
17. Night In Tunisia (3:07)
18. Ol Man Rebop (2:47)
19. Anthropology (2:39)
20. Who (2:54)
21. The Way You Look Tonight (2:45)
22. Why Do I Love You? (2:20)
23. All The Things You Are (2:15)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1946-1947 {CC, 986}

01. One Bass Hit - Part 1 (2:54)
02. Oop Bop ShBam (3:02)
03. A Hand Fulla Gimme (3:02)
04. Thats Earl Brother (2:42)
05. Our Delight (2:30)
06. Good Dues Blues (3:01)
07. One Bass Hit - Part 2 (2:55)
08. Rays Idea (2:24)
09. Things To Come (2:49)
10. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped (Alice Roberts vocal) (2:42)
11. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped (Dizzy Gillespie vocal) (2:44)
12. For Hecklers Only (2:57)
13. Smokey Hollow Jump (3:01)
14. Boppin The Blues (3:06)
15. Moody Speaks (2:33)
16. I Waited For You (3:06)
17. Emanon (3:07)
18. Ow! (2:57)
19. Oopapada (3:13)
20. Two Bass Hit (2:48)
21. Stay On It (3:11)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1947-1949 {CC, 1102}

01. Algo Bueno (Woody n You) (3:02)
02. Cool Breeze (2:47)
03. Cubana Be (2:42)
04. Cubana Bop (3:16)
05. Manteca (3:08)
06. Good Bait (2:49)
07. Ool-Ya-Koo (2:53)
08. Minor Walk (2:46)
09. Guarachi Guaro (3:14)
10. Duff Capers (4:16)
11. Lover Come Back To Me (3:35)
12. Im Be Boppin Too (2:18)
13. Swedish Suite (2:58)
14. St. Louis Blues (3:11)
15. I Should Care (3:01)
16. That Old Black Magic (2:42)
17. Dizzier And Dizzier (Katy) (3:04)
18. Jump Did-Le-Ba (2:31)
19. Hey Pete, Lets Eat No Meat (3:03)
20. Jumpin With Symphony Sid (3:06)
21. If Love Is Trouble (3:47)
22. In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee (2:37)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1953-1954 (CC, 1424)

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)

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