Gillespiana
by Dizzy Gillespie
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1961
- Label: Verve
- Country: United States
- Length: 41:39
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Gillespiana' was composed entirely by pianist Lalo Schifrin and recorded for Verve Records. The suite integrated complex Afro-Cuban percussion with a large brass ensemble, providing a structured concerto format for Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet solos.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, rhythmic, technical, instrumental
Tracklist
- Prelude (5:56)
- Blues (11:20)
- Panamericana (4:42)
- Africana (7:35)
- Toccata (12:05)
Credits
- Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra - primary artist, trumpet
- Art Davis - bass
- Jack Del Rio - bongos
- Candido - congas
- Chuck Lampkin - drums
- Al Richmond - horns
- Gunther Schuller - horns
- Jim Buffington - horns
- Julius Watkins - horns
- Morris Secon - horns
- William Lister - horns
- Lalo Schifrin - piano
- Leo Wright - saxophone
- Willie Rodriguez - timbales, timpani
- Britt Woodman - trombone
- Frank Rehak - trombone
- Paul Faulise - trombone
- Urbie Green - trombone
- Clark Terry - trumpet
- Ernie Royal - trumpet
- Joe Wilder - trumpet
- John Frosk - trumpet
- Don Butterfield - tuba