Jambo Caribe

by Dizzy Gillespie

Jambo Caribe cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1965
  • Label: Limelight
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:57
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A pioneering figure in the fusion of jazz with Caribbean rhythms, Dizzy Gillespie delves into calypso and Afro-Cuban forms on 'Jambo Caribe'. The recording features an energetic quintet navigating infectious, dance-oriented grooves, reaffirming the trumpeter's dedication to expanding the global rhythmic vocabulary of modern jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: dance, party, groove-laden, percussive, melodic, instrumental, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Fiesta Mojo (3:49)
  2. Barbados Carnival (2:55)
  3. Jambo (4:57)
  4. Trinidad, Hello (4:19)
  5. Poor Joe (2:37)
  6. And Then She Stopped (3:15)
  7. Don't Try To Keep Up With The Joneses (2:36)
  8. Trinidad, Goodbye (8:25)

Credits

  • Dizzy Gillespie - primary artist, trumpet, written-by, written-by, vocals
  • Chris White - bass, guitar, written-by, vocals, vocal
  • Bill Petan - copyist
  • Rudy Collins - drums
  • Bucky Milam - illustration
  • Kansas Fields - percussion
  • Kenny Barron - piano, bass, composed by, written-by
  • James Moody - tenor saxophone, flute

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