Dizzy Gillespie - The Chronological Classics: 1945 '1996

Tracks list

Tracklist

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)

Heres a case where strict adherence to a chronology bears fascinating fruit.
Classics 888 focuses only upon January and February of 1945, a small chunk of
time during which Dizzy sat in with certain wild bands and made his very first
recordings as a leader. On January 9th, a number of musicians from different
stylistic backgrounds showed up late to record with Oscar Pettiford, who
eventually admitted that he hadnt any idea of what they were going to use for
material. Pianist Clyde Hart offered to slap a few charts together on the spot.
Something for You, known elsewhere as Max Is Making Wax, came out brisk and
boppish with powerful blowing from Don Byas, Diz and swing trombonist Benny
Morton, who seems to have worked extra hard to fit in with this fast crowd.
Worried Life Blues, composed by blues and boogie-woogie pianist Big Maceo
Merriweather, featured vocalist Rubberlegs Williams, who growled, howled and
occasionally barked in a way that brings to mind one of Fats Wallers favorite
habitual exclamations: Get away from here! Empty Bed Blues, while attributed to
Oscar Pettiford, is clearly a Bessie Smith cover. Diz growls ominously with his
horn behind the vocal. Retaining some of the players from the Pettiford group,
Dizzys Sextet sounded very well-organized by comparison. The trumpeters handling
of I Cant Get Started is breathtakingly beautiful. Tadd Damerons irresistible
Good Bait sounds as solid and immediate as the day it was made. In his
autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, Gillespie said he had composed a fast thing,
and just named it Be Bop later on...it didnt have a name before the record date.
Be Bop is one brilliant and bracing piece of work, surprisingly put together.
After ripping through a whole lot of wild changes, each player contributes a
brief note or two for a composite coda. Before the month of January had ended, a
famously weird session came together and then blew apart at the seams. Nominally
led by Clyde Hart, it began with several vocals by a louder-than-ever Rubberlegs
Williams. Apparently seeking to maintain his edge, the blues shouter consumed
many cups of coffee, unaware of the fact that the caffeine in question had been
steeply fortified with Benzedrine by the ever-resourceful Charlie Parker. At
first, Legs sounded only marginally manic, humorously gruff in the throes of his
boisterous R&B showmanship. By the time they got around to recording Thats the
Blues, the singer must have been completely geeked, as he began his vocal at
full intensity, with nowhere left to build to. Halfway through the record, his
voice started to disintegrate as Legs approached the vocal intensity of Screamin
Jay Hawkins. Dizzy swears that Legs never drank or smoked, while Trummy Young
insisted the singer was also full of whiskey, which would have mixed horribly
with the amphetamine. In any case, after he passed into a state of chemically
induced psychosis, Williams was led away and the ensemble magically re-grouped
itself as James Trummy Youngs All-Stars. The mood changed to a very hip level of
calmness as Trummy sang pleasant melodies in a soft and friendly voice. The
contrast between this and the previously hard-hitting rhythm and blues material
-- recorded by all but one of the same musicians on the same day -- is
astonishing, as is the interplay between Sarah Vaughan and Ben Webster on All
Too Soon, between Diz and Dexter Gordon on Blue n Boogie and most of all,
between Bird and Diz. Cherish every nuance of these early recordings of Groovin
High and All the Things You Are; they are intimate works of great poetic depth,
existing at the heart of these amazing collaborative friendships.

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