Results for "Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band"

Tin Tin Deo

Featuring the music of Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
Duration: 9:57
January 3, 2009

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business

by George Kanzler
March 20, 2007

This is a “ghost band" in the midst of an exorcism. Dizzy's ghost is almost gone. Past editions of this band featured Jon Faddis, Dizzy's most faithful acolyte, on trumpet, carrying the torch. No torch carriers here: sans Faddis, the other trumpeters obviously feel no compunction to channel Dizzy bop lines in their solos. And while ...

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business

by Jack Bowers
November 26, 2006

Concert-goers at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild last September-October chanced upon the best of all possible worlds--terrific charts by Ernie Wilkins, Slide Hampton, Dennis Mackrel and Jimmy Heath, marvelously played by the accurately named Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. If you aren't among those lucky enough to have been there, your luck has taken a turn for ...

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 9, 2006

Arrangiatori fra i più raffinati della scena jazz moderna, Slide Hampton ed Ernie Wilkins raccolgono la sfida di rileggere il più noto repertorio orchestrale di Dizzy Gillespie. Per l’occasione (un concerto commemorativo) sono stati chiamati a raccolta alcuni tra i più stretti collaboratori del magnifico trombettista, per fornire la necessaria patina di autenticità al progetto. James ...

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business

by C. Michael Bailey
October 4, 2006

The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band is a renowned entity with several fine recordings on various labels. Releases by the group are always greeted with a certain anticipation. Listeners who have been looking for that one big band recording this year need look no further--Dizzy's Business is here, and it's larger than life. Trombonist ...

Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
September 19, 2006

The second recording by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band offers seventy minutes of superb, often legendary talents doing full justice to timeless material. While only three of the eleven tracks are technically Gillespie compositions, his spirit lives on in joyous, swinging arrangements and sparkling trumpet solos by Claudio Roditi, Roy Hargrove, Randy Brecker and Greg ...