Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Dizzy Gillespie

by Dizzy Gillespie

Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Dizzy Gillespie cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 November 2000
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:59
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A companion to Ken Burns' documentary series sampling Dizzy Gillespie's big band and small group recordings, the core documents of bebop's move into Afro-Cuban rhythm. Gillespie's trumpet virtuosity and showmanship carried the new music to a mass audience.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, virtuosic, melodic, rhythmic, fast

Tracklist

  1. Pickin' The Cabbage (2:45)
  2. Disorder At The Border (2:55)
  3. Salt Peanuts (3:16)
  4. I Can't Get Started (2:58)
  5. A Night In Tunisia (3:10)
  6. Dizzy Atmosphere (2:46)
  7. Groovin' High (2:40)
  8. Things To Come (2:45)
  9. One Bass Hit, No.2 (2:45)
  10. Manteca (3:04)
  11. Bloomdido (3:24)
  12. Tin Tin Deo (2:39)
  13. Birks' Works (4:55)
  14. The Eternal Triangle (14:10)
  15. No More Blues (Live At Third International Festival Of Jazz D'Antibes, Juan-Les-Pins/1962) (10:19)
  16. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Live At Memory Lane, Los Angeles, 1967) (7:28)

Credits

  • Ben Young - compilation producer
  • Brian Priestley - liner notes
  • Kevin Reeves - mastered by
  • Herman Leonard - photography by
  • William P. Gottlieb - photography by

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