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Album
The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party
Label: Shanachie Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Salt Peanuts, Fiesta Mojo, Birk
Article: Album Review
The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars: Dizzy's 80th Birthday Party
by C. Michael Bailey
A few years preceding John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie's death in 1993 through the present have seen the release of several tribute discs to the creator of Modern Jazz. The majority of these recordings have been basically live jam sessions with some moments of interesting music, but for the most part they are a self-indulgent bore. It ...
