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Dizzy Gillespie: The Verve / Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions
by Andrew Velez
Recorded from May, 1954 to April, 1964, these 132 small-group sides just might not have happened--except that like so many others, Dizzy Gillespie's big band had fallen on hard times by the early '50s. This seven-disc compilation is filled with signature classics such as “Salt Peanuts and “A Night In Tunisia, documenting the evolving artistry of ...
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business
by C. Michael Bailey
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
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 ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Digs Paris
by Nic Jones
If indeed Dizzy did dig Paris, then the opposite was also true, and the Parisians who were at the Salle Pleyel in February of 1953 made that abundantly obvious in their responses to the music. They knew what it was all about. They were witnessing one of the greats in any field of music, the yin ...
Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend
by Greg Thomas
Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...
