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Odyssey 1945-1952

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 64 tracks including: Salt Peanuts Shaw 'Nuff Hot House Dizzy's Boogie He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped Things to Come For Hecklers Only Boppin the Blues Interlude in C Bopsie's Blues Caravan Star Dust They Cant Take That Away from Me

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Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey 1945-1952

by Jim Santella
September 6, 2002

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 ...

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Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey 1945-1952

Read "Odyssey 1945-1952" reviewed by Charlie B. Dahan

by Charlie B. Dahan
July 15, 2002

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, ...