Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars
by Dizzy Gillespie
- Type: Album
- Released: 1947-03-00
- Label: Musicraft
- Country: United States
- Length: 19:10
- Community rating: 3.3/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Documenting the explosive arrival of modern jazz, this session features the trumpeter navigating furiously fast tempos and complex harmonic substitutions. The recording captures the radical, virtuosic essence of the bebop revolution as it systematically dismantled big band conventions. It stands as a profound historical marker for the modernization of American instrumental music.
Genres
Descriptors: Improvisation, Instrumental, Rhythmic
Tracklist
Credits
- Dizzy Gillespie - primary artist, written-by, trumpet [uncredited], featuring
- Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, alto saxophone [uncredited]
- Ray Brown - bass, bass [uncredited], written-by
- Kenny Clarke - drums, drums [uncredited]
- Al Haig - piano
- Milt Jackson - vibraphone [vibes], vibraphone [uncredited], featuring
- Alice Roberts - vocals, featuring
- Charlie Parker - alto saxophone, alto saxophone [uncredited]
- Slam Stewart - bass, bass [uncredited]
- Harold "Doc" West - drums, drums [uncredited]
- Remo Palmieri - guitar, guitar [uncredited]
- Clyde Hart - piano, piano [uncredited]
- Murray Shipinsky - bass
- Shelly Manne - drums
- Charles Jagelka - guitar
- Frank Paparelli - piano, written-by
- Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
- Curly Russell - bass
- Sidney Catlett - drums
- Tadd Dameron - written-by
- Howard Johnson - alto saxophone [uncredited]
- Leo Parker - baritone saxophone [uncredited]
- John Lewis - piano [uncredited]
- Ray Abrams - tenor saxophone [uncredited]
- Warren Luckey - tenor saxophone [uncredited]
- Alton Moore - trombone [uncredited]
- Gordon Thomas - trombone [uncredited]
- Leon Comegys - trombone [uncredited]
- Dave Burns - trumpet [uncredited]
- Elmon Wright - trumpet [uncredited]
- John Lynch - trumpet [uncredited]
- Kenny Dorham - trumpet [uncredited]
- Talib Daawud - trumpet [uncredited]
- Fields - written by
- Milton Shaw - written-by
- Jerome Kern - written-by