Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Blue 'N' Boogie
2. Groovin' High
3. All the Things You Are
4. Dizzy Atmosphere
5. Salt Peanuts
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Lover Man
8. Hot House
9. Interlude (A Night in Tunisia)
10. Evil Gal Blues
11. Don't Wear No Black
12. Dizzy's Boogie
13. Flat Foot Floogie
14. Poppity Pop
15. Slim's Jam
16. One Bass Hit, Pt. 1
17. Oop Bop Sh'bam
18. Hand Fulla Gimme, A
19. That's Earl, Brother
20. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
21. Our Delight
22. Good Dues Blues
DISC 2:
1. One Bass Hit, Pt. 2
2. Ray's Idea
3. Things to Come
4. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
5. I Waited for You
6. Emanon
7. For Hecklers Only
8. Smoky Hollow Blues
9. Boppin' the Blues
10. Moody Speaks
11. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
12. Lullaby of the Leaves
13. I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)
14. What Is There to Say?
15. Alone Together
16. These Are the Things I Love
17. On the Alamo
18. Interlude in C
19. We Love to Boogie
20. Tin Tin Deo
21. Birk's Works
DISC 3:
1. Oh, Lady Be Good
2. Love Me, Pretty Baby
3. Champ, Pt. 1 & 2, The
4. I'm in a Mess
5. School Days
6. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
7. Bopsie's Blues - (alternate take)
8. Bopsie's Blues - (Master Take)
9. I Couldn't Beat the Rap
10. Caravan - (alternate take)
11. Caravan - (Master Take)
12. Nobody Knows
13. Bluest Blues, The
14. On the Sunny Side of the Street
15. Stardust
16. Time on My Hands
17. Blue Skies
18. Umbrella Man
19. Pops' Confessin'
20. Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee
21. They Can't Take That Away from Me
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, John Lewis, Kenny Clarke, Ray Brown, Sarah Vaughan | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, James Moody, John Lewis, Oscar Pettiford, Slam Stewart, Ray Brown, Cozy Cole, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Sarah Vaughan.
This excellent three-disc set contains 64 great songs performed by Dizzy Gillespie and company in varied settings. Odyssey: 1945-1952 chronicles the master trumpeter in small groups, big bands, a session with strings, and also some blues. Among the rare treats on the collection are a full-fledged Gillespie big band score "Interlude (A Night in Tunisia)," performed here with the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, where Gillespie worked for a couple of weeks at a time in both 1944 and 1945. The inimitable "Groovin' High" is played by the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet of which Charlie Parker, Cozy Cole, and Slam Stewart were members. The song is heard here as a classic bebop contrafact based on the chord progression of "Whispering," which became a million-seller for Paul Whiteman. Disc one also features "Slim's Jam," a song that is ripe with Gillespie conversation, including one with sax great Charlie Parker about his reed. This song makes you feel as if you are right there in the recording session. The Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet play a humorous "Salt Peanuts" and features the young Sarah Vaughan singing "Lover Man." Disc two includes music by such great bands as the Ray Brown All Stars, the BeBop Boys, who featured Dizzy Gillespie tearing down the house with such jazz notables as James Moody, Milt Jackson, and Hank Jones, playing such great songs as "Moody Speaks" and "Boppin' the Blues." Disc three has some of the best excitement from Gillespie's musical diary and provides a fascinating insight into his life and times with such jazz giants as Percy Heath, J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey, and Stuff Smith on "Oh Lady Be Good," "Love Me Pretty Baby," and "Caravan." Savoy has reissued one of the best documentations of Gillespie's artistry in recent times. For those who are just learning about the great Dizzy Gillespie or for those who have an extensive collection of his music, this box set supplies a comprehensive review of his timeless musical itineraries during 1945-1952. All selections have been transferred to digital tape from the original monaural master tapes and acetates stored in Denon's Savoy vaults. A must-have. ~ Paula Edelstein
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