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Live At The Royal Festival Hall
Label: Eagle Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Tin Tin Deo/Seresta-Carmen/And Then She Stopped/Tanga/Kush/Dizzy Shells/A Night In Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie: Matrix
by Charlie B. Dahan
The name Dizzy Gillespie conjures up the image of the hip trailblazer in the world of bop jazz and later the synthesis between jazz and the sounds and rhythms of Cuba and Africa. However, this period encapsulated his early years--but what happened to him after the 1960’s? The release of Matrix hopes to revive this era ...
Donald Harrison: Real Life Stories
by C. Michael Bailey
Nouveau Swing... Alto saxophonist Donald Harrison is all about dance. It is danceable rhythms that fuel his nouveau swing vision of jazz. Not necessarily Latin in texture, the rhythm is at once angular and smooth—a musical dichotomy. The 42-year-old New Orleans native has been recording since the mid 1980s and has produced a solid track record ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey 1945-1952
by Jim Santella
Savoy’s 3-CD collection covers a lot of territory. The personnel listing is a who’s who of bebop pioneers. Dizzy Gillespie would play it fierce and brazen one moment, then muted and sweet the next. What you got was the real deal. Trading phrases with Slam Stewart, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, James Moody or Slim Gaillard, the ...
The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Big Band: Things to Come
by Jack Bowers
So who needs the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band anyway? Jon Faddis, whose whose widely acclaimed CHJB has been shown the door by the powers that be (its last concert will be presented this month at the Hollywood Bowl), has landed on his feet--and how!--as music director of the aptly-named Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band. If ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey 1945-1952
by Charlie B. Dahan
One of the first re-issues from the recently 60 year old, newly revived, Savoy label is a retrospective of the works of John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie that span the years from 1945 to 1952. During this pivotal time jazz moved away from the pop swing / big band music of the era into the newer exploratory, ...
Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band: Things to Come
by C. Michael Bailey
The Phoenix...out of the ashes of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band has been an active entity since 1998. Steered by Jon Faddis and John Lee, the band consists of musicians who played with John Birks Gillespie sometime during his 50 years of music making. Also under the Faddis tutelage ...
Dizzy Gillespie And The United Nations Orchestra: Live At The Royal Festival Hall
by Ken Hohman
As much a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie's pioneering bebop band in the forties as it is a testament to the trumpet master's ability to synthesize Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Caribbean music into the jazz idiom, Live At The Royal Festival Hall is a real renaissance effort. Originally released in 1989 on the Enja label, this live set ...
