Dizzy Gillespie

Randy Weston’s ‘The Spirits Of Our Ancestors’ is an album recorded on May 20, 21 & 22, 1991 with an all-star cast of musicians and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant (Randy Weston) – 03:21 . 2.The Healers (Randy Weston) – 10:48 . 3.African Cookbook (Randy Weston) – 17:16 […]

Wes Montgomery’s ‘Bumpin” is his thirteenth album recorded on March 16, May 18, 19 & 20, 1965 and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Bumpin’ (Wes Montgomery) – 06:40 . 2.Tear It Down (Wes Montgomery) – 03:10 . 3.A Quiet Thing (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 03:27 . 4.Con Alma (Dizzy Gillespie) […]

‘Jazz at Massey Hall’ by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach a.k.a. ‘The Quintet’ is a live album recorded on May 15, 1953 and released the same year In 1953 by Debut. Track Listing : 1.Perdido (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengfelder, Ervin M. Drake) – 07:47 . 2.Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie, […]

‘Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics’ is an album recorded on March 12, 24 & May 12, 1959 with a jazz big band conducted and arranged by Marty Paich and released the same year by Contemporary. Track Listing : 1.Move (Denzil Best) – 03:26 . 2.Groovin’ High (Dizzy Gillespie) – 03:22 . 3.Opus […]

‘Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet’ is an album recorded on May 11 and October 26, 1956 and released in May 1961 by Prestige. Track Listing : 1.Surrey With The Fringe On Top (Richard Rodgers) – 09:05 . 2.Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke) – 06:09 . 3.Something I Dreamed Last Night (Sammy Fain) – […]

Arturo Sandoval’s ‘Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)’ is an album recorded with a Large Jazz Ensemble and released on May 8, 2012 by Concord. Track Listing : 1.Be Bop (Dizzy Gillespie) – 08:18 . 2.Salt Peanuts! [Mani Salado] (Kenneth Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie) – 06:48 . 3.And Then She Stopped (Dizzy Gillespie) – […]

Arturo Sandoval’s ‘Trumpet Evolution’ is an album (‘a journey through the great trumpeters from jazz’s and orchestral music’s past’) released on May 6, 2003 by Crescent Moon/Columbia. Track Listing : 1.Dipper Mouth Blues (King Oliver) – 02:15 . 2.When It’S Sleepy Time Down South (Clarence Muse, Otis Rene, Leon René) – 03:02 . 3.At The […]

Miles Davis & Gill Evans Orchestra, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Martial Solal, Johnny Griffin, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Hank Jones, Joe Lovano, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval, Elvin Jones, Sonny Rollins , Joshua Redman , Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Dave Brubeck, e.s.t.. They are the Jazz Legends selected among the 209 Posts we publish […]

Miles Davis’ ‘Walkin’ is an album recorded on April, 3 and April 29, 1954 with the ‘Miles Davis All Stars’ and released the same year by Prestige. Track Listing : 1.Walkin’ (Richard Carpenter) – 13:24 . 2.Blue ‘N’ Boogie (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 08:15 . 3.Solar (Miles Davis) – 04:41 . 4.You Don’T Know […]

Chaka Khan’s ‘What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me’ is her third solo album produced by Arif Mardin and released on April 15, 1981 y Warner Bros. Track Listing : 1.We Can Work It Out (John Lennon, Paul Mccartney) – 03:43 . 2.What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me (Ned Doheny, Hamish Stuart) – 03:54 . 3.I […]

Gil Evans’ ‘New Bottle Old Wine’ is an album featuring Cannonball Adderley as the only soloist, recorded between April 9 and May 26, 1958 and released the same year by World Pacific. Track Listing : 1.St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy) – 05:26 . 2.King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) – 03:19 . 3.Willow Tree […]

Jimmy Smith’s ‘Cool Blues’ is a live album recorded on April 7, 1958 at Small’s Paradise in New York City and released in 1978 By Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Dark Eyes (Traditional) – 11:43 . 2.Groovin’ At Small’S (Babs Gonzales) – 12:01 . 3.A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) – 17:04 . 4.Cool Blues […]

Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Birks’ Works’ is an album recorded on April 7 & 8, 1957 at a New York City Studio.and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Jordu (Duke Jordan) – 04:13 . 2.Birks’ Works (Dizzy Gillespie) – 04:56 . 3.Umbrella Man (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh) – 03:02 . 4.Autumn Leaves […]

Milt Jackson's "Wizard of the Vibes" is an album recorded on July 2, 1948 with the Thelonious Monk Quintet and on…

Stan Getz’ ‘Sweet Rain’ is an album recorded on March 21 & 30, 1967 with Chick Corea, Ron Carter and Grady Tate and released in July 1967. Track Listing : 1.Litha (Chick Corea) – 08:30 . 2.O Grande Amor (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius Demoraes) – 04:44 . 3.Sweet Rain (Mike Gibbs) – 07:12 . 4.Con […]

March 15, 2007 – The Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band – that is Slide Hampton (Direct, b tb), Roberta Gambarini (voc), Bobby Lavell (ts), Antonio Hart (as), Mark Gross (as), Anders Boiarsky (ts), Frank Basile (bs), Claudio Roditi (tp), Roy Hargrove (tp, flug, voc), Frank Greenr (tp), Greg Gisbert (tp), James Burton (tb), Jason […]

This day (March 12, 1955), in New York City, New York, died Charles ‘Charlie’ Parker, Jr. , an American jazz saxophonist .

March 9, 1986 – the Timeless All Stars – that is Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Harld Land (ts), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Cedar Walton (p), Buster Williams (b) and Billy Higgins (d) – perform in Hamburg, Germany

February 27, 1987 – German television has gathered Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (d), Hank Jones (p), Slide Hampton (tb), Johnny Griffin (ts), Jon Faddis (tp), Arturo Sandoval (tp), Eddie Gomez (b) and Ed Thigpen (d) for Dizzy Gillespie‘s 70th Birthday Jubilee Session at Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, Germany

February 25, 1986 – Huey Lewis & The News, a-ha, Sting, Phil Collins plus an All-Star Jam Session gathering B.B. King, Tony Williams, Stanley Clarke, Ron Carter, Michel Petrucciani, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, Stanley Jordan, Bobby Hutcherson), Gary Burton, Jon Faddis, Dizzy Gillespie , Gerry Mulligan, David Sanborn and Buddy Rich plus Sarah Vaughan, Diana […]