Salt Peanuts / Hot House

by Dizzy Gillespie

Salt Peanuts / Hot House cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: September 1945
  • Label: Guild
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.42/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bursting with frenetic energy and staggering technical proficiency, this highly playful track serves as a defining manifesto for the emerging bebop subgenre. The intricate rhythmic interplay and lightning-fast brass execution radically reconfigured the vocabulary of modern jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, technical, improvisation, instrumental, melodic, food

Tracklist

  1. Salt Peanuts
  2. Hot House

Credits

  • Dizzy Gillespie - primary artist, trumpet [uncredited], written-by
  • Charlie Parker - primary artist, alto saxophone [uncredited]
  • Sidney Catlett - primary artist, drums [uncredited]
  • Al Haig - primary artist, piano [uncredited]
  • Curly Russell - primary artist, bass [uncredited]
  • Kenny Clarke - written-by
  • Tadd Dameron - written-by

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