Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Manteca
2. Anthropology - (take 2)
3. King Porter Stomp - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
4. Yours and Mine - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
5. Blue Rhythm Fantasy - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
6. Hot Mallets - (with Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra)
7. 52nd Street Theme - (take 1)
8. 52nd Street Theme - (take 2)
9. Night in Tunisia - (take 1)
10. Night in Tunisia - (incomplete take)
11. Ol' Man Rebop
12. Anthropology - (take 1)
13. Ow!
14. Oop-Pop-a-Da
15. Two Bass Hit
16. Stay on It
17. Algo Bueno (Woody 'N You)
18. Cool Breeze
19. Cubana Be
20. Cubana Bop
21. Ool-Ya-Koo
22. Minor Walk
DISC 2:
1. Good Bait
2. Guarachi Guaro
3. Duff Capers
4. Lover, Come Back to Me
5. I'm Be Boppin' Too - (take 1)
6. Swedish Suite
7. St. Louis Blues
8. I Should Care
9. That Old Black Magic
10. You Go to My Head
11. Jump Did-le Ba
12. Dizzier and Dizzier
13. I'm Be Boppin' Too - (take 2)
14. Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat
15. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
16. If Love Is Trouble
17. In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee
18. Overtime - (shorter take, with Metronome All-Stars)
19. Overtime - (longer take, with Metronome All-Stars)
20. Victory Ball - (shorter take, with Metronome All-Stars)
21. Victory Ball - (longer take, with Metronome All-Stars)
| Details | | Producer: | Orrin Keepnews (Reissue) | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Russell Procope, Howard Johnson, Ernie Henry (alto saxophone); Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Yusef Lateef (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Dicky Wells, Taswell Baird, William Shepherd (trombone); Clyde Hart, John Lewis, Sam Allen, Al Haig (piano); John Smith, John Collins, Charlie Christian, Bill DeArango (guitar); Richard Fullbright, Al McKibbon (bass); Bill Beason, Teddy Stewart, Kenny Clarke, Joe Harris, J.C. Heard (drums).
Recorded in New York from 1937-1949. Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler.
Digitally remastered by James Nichols (BMG Studios, New York).
THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS gathers under one roof all the seminal big-band recordings and small-group sessions Dizzy cut for the label during his great initial burst of creativity following World War II. Some rare Gillespie performances act as historical bookends to this set. There's his early work as a sideman with Teddy Hill and Lionel Hampton, when he was still under the sway of Roy Eldridge. And for the last word, there is the legendary 1949 Metronome All-Star date, featuring Charlie Parker and some of Dizzy's chief acolytes. Trumpeters Fats Navarro and Miles Davis pay tribute to Dizzy's stylistic dominance by engaging the master in an astonishing round-robin dialogue on the long version of "Overtime."
If Charlie Parker was the prophet of bebop, Gillespie was its high priest. Together they changed everyone's phrasing. As a soloist, Gillespie completely transformed his instrument, extending its range while adding layers of rhythmic and harmonic complexity. On solos such as "Two Bass Hit," "Algo Bueno (Woody 'N You)," and "St. Louis Blues," he routinely skydives from the horn's highest reaches. Yet his ballad "Dizzier And Dizzier" illustrates uncommon harmonic mastery and lyric restraint. And by including Afro-Cuban polyrhythms on his most famous tunes, "Manteca" and "Night In Tunisia," Dizzy altered the jazz groove forever, from straight fours to a free melodic pulse, paving the way for modern jazz and salsa.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
...For a great many young jazz fans...these sides were their introduction to bebop, at the time a startling innovation hungrily snapping at the heels of the jazz mainstream...
JazzTimes (07/01/1995)
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