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Gillespie Quintet Live: Gillespiana, 1961

Gillespie Quintet Live: Gillespiana, 1961

Like Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts (1965, '68 and '73) and Chico O'Farrill's Second Afro-Cuban Suite (1954), Lalo Schifrin's Gillespiana is a jazz masterwork. Now, SteepleChase Records in Denmark has released Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespiana in Concert, recorded in Copenhagen on November 20, 1961. Gillespiana was a work originally written by Lalo for Gillespie's 16-piece orchestra. It ...

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Backgrounder - Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana

Backgrounder - Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana

In 1956, a year after Juan Perón's regime was overthrown, Lalo Schifrin returned to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from Paris a professional jazz musician—much to his parents' dismay. “They feared I wouldn't be able to earn a living," Lalo told me in 2012 at his home in Beverly Hills. When Dizzy Gillespie performed in Buenos Aires later ...

Album

Gillespiana

Label: Aleph Records
Released: 1998

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Article: Album Review

Lalo Schifrin / WDR Big Band: Gillespiana

Read "Gillespiana" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Those who know Lalo Shifrin only from film scores and studio work may be surprised to learn that he once played piano in Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet. In 1960, Gillespie introduced Schifrin’s “Gillespiana,” a five–movement sound–portrait of Dizzy’s life and music that was completed only a few days after Gillespie asked him, “When are you going to ...

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Article: Album Review

Lalo Schifrin: Gillespiana

Read "Gillespiana" reviewed by Douglas Payne


A true joy, Gillespiana revisits the classic five-part jazz suite Lalo Schifrin created for trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie in 1960. It is a brilliant, consistently inventive work that has lost none of its appeal or sheen over nearly four decades worth of time. Surprisingly, Gillespiana has not been recorded since its initial debut in 1960 until ...

Album

Gillespiana

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1960
Track listing: Prelude; Blues; Panamericana; Africana; Toccata.


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