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The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party

Label: Shanachie Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Salt Peanuts, Fiesta Mojo, Birk

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The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party

Read "The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A few years preceding John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie's death in 1993 through the present have seen the release of several tribute discs to the creator of Modern Jazz. The majority of these recordings have been basically live jam sessions with some moments of interesting music, but for the most part they are a self-indulgent bore. It ...


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