Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Featuring Chano Pozo

by Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Featuring Chano Pozo cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1954
  • Label: GNP Crescendo
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.32/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Resurrecting historic 1948 concert recordings, this crucial release documents the explosive, foundational integration of Afro-Cuban percussion into modern jazz orchestration. The relentlessly aggressive brass arrangements and highly complex conga polyrhythms successfully launched a massive rhythmic revolution.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Emanon
  2. Ool-Ya-Koo
  3. Stay On It
  4. Good Bait
  5. One Bass Hit
  6. Manteca

Credits

  • Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - primary artist
  • Chano Pozo - primary artist, bongos
  • Ernie Henry - alto saxophone
  • John Brown - alto saxophone
  • Gil Fuller - arranged by
  • Tadd Dameron - arranged by
  • Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone
  • Nelson Boyd - bass

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