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Dizzy Gillespie - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Dizzy Gillespie

Band: Dizzy Gillespie Title: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Dizzy Gillespie Rating: Release Date: 07 November, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Pickin' the Cabbage (with Cab Calloway & His Orchestra) 2: Disorder At The Border (with Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra) 3: A Night In Tunisia (with Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra) 4: Salt Peanuts 5: I Can't Get Started 6: Dizzy Atmosphere 7: Groovin' High 8: Things To Come 9: One Bass Hit, No. 2 10: Manteca 11: Bloomdido 12: Tin Tin Deo 13: Birk's Works 14: The Eternal Triangle 15: No More Blues (Chega de Saudade) 16: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

Editoral Review His high-speed runs, twisting phrases, and upper-register leaps are just too difficult to duplicate. Although Dizzy Gillespie was one of the great architects of modern jazz and its most famous personality, his trumpet style has rarely been imitated successfully. This collection begins by placing Gillespie in the big swing bands in which his career began, his complex arrangements and advanced harmonic imagination gradually heralding the coming of bop. There are superb versions of some of his most famous anthems, like "A Night in Tunisia" and "Salt Peanuts," and meetings with altoist Charlie Parker, co-leader of the modernist revolution. Gillespie successfully translated the bop idiom to a big-band format, and his magnificent but short-lived bands are heard on the surging "Manteca" and "Birk's Works. " His creative range is apparent--from the gorgeous "No More Blues," from his early discovery of bossa nova, and from his famous gospel parody, "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. " While his formats would change, it's the Gillespie trumpet that's central here, an instrument capable of both rocketing invention and muted, insinuating sweetness. --Stuart Broomer .. You can see a complete list of all Dizzy Gillespie discography, or go back to the Dizzy Gillespie tabs