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Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie

Label: Bluebird/Legacy
Released: 2007
Track listing: Night in Tunisia (sic); 52nd Street Theme; Anthropology; Oop-Pop-A-Da; Two Bass Hit; Stay On It; Algo Bueno (Woody n

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Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie

Read "Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
July 13, 2007

It's quite a stretch to call this CD the very best, since all of the music was recorded between 1946 and 1949. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was one of the leaders of bebop but also forged an important and unshakable relationship between jazz and Afro-Cuban music that lasts to this day. His recording career spans more than ...