DIZZY GILLESPIE

[brownie]

You can find the two 12/21/47 Metronome All Star cuts on Capitol Jazz Classics Vol. 6 - All-Star Sessions. I have it as Capitol M-11031. No idea what the original Dutch cataolg number would be,

Have the LP right in front of me: It's Capitol 5C 052.80 806

What are the titles left off of Strictly Bebop, and are they any less dire than the ones that were included? Just wondering it they're on the upper or lower "You Stole My Wife, You Horse Thief" side of the bar...

1949:

I Can't Remember (vcl Tiny Irwin)

1950:

Carambola

Honeysuckle Rose (vcl Joe Carroll)

"Carambola" was/is on the Capitol "The History of Jazz" comp "Vol. 4 - Enter The Cool" (Cap T796) that was around in several iterations/pressings from the original issue of the late 50s at least up to the mid-80s (I bought my copy as a Spanish facsimile reissue in 1983)

Those three are included in the 7CD set 'Dizzy Gillespie Complete Big Band Studio Sessions' from United Archives

[Swinging Swede]

All of these tracks were also released on Chronological Classics CDs. The 1947 Metronome All Stars session is on Nat "King" Cole 1947-1949, and the big band sessions on Dizzy Gillespie 1949-1950.

[Guy Berger]

Anybody else think the Diz'n'Getz session is mildly disappointing?

[flat5]

Not me, I think we are lucky to have it.

[Milestones]

I have also liked what I've heard of the Dizzy/Getz records; there seem to be quite a few of them. Some will think the partnership sounds odd. I guess you don't know Getz very well if you don't know he could be a smoking bop player at times.

If not already mentioned, I recommend the album by Bebop and Beyond that pays tribute to Dizzy, with Dizzy on most of the tracks. His singing and moving trumpet solo on "I Waited for You" should not be missed.

[Teasing the Korean]

I like the early Afro-Cuban stuff, and also the early-mid-60s stuff with Lalo.

[brownie]

Anybody else think the Diz'n'Getz session is mildly disappointing?

I don't!

If the session was a contest, I'ld say: WINNERS ALL!

Same goes for another Diz-Getz album (this one's even better!)

[bluesoul]

 

[marcello]

These Ronnie Scott's recordings from 1973 are very nice indeed:

 

[HutchFan]

Thanks for the heads-up on this Ronnie Scott's archival stuff, Marcello. I didn't know that this music had been released.

Definitely something that I'm going to check out.  

[kh1958]

These under the radar releases, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet Live in Vegas 1963, sure are good. It's Dizzy's quintet recorded live in a top flight performance in good sound: with Leo Wright, Lalo Schrifrin, Christopher White, and Rudy Collins.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

These under the radar releases, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet Live in Vegas 1963, sure are good. It's Dizzy's quintet recorded live in a top flight performance in good sound: with Leo Wright, Lalo Schrifrin, Christopher White, and Rudy Collins.

Caught that band live at Grinnell College circa '63.

[Rooster_Ties]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Caught that band live at Grinnell College circa '63.

Trying to remember your chronology, Chuck (and geography).

You were still in college then, right? (Or was this in high school?) — definitely pre-Chicago, though. But did you have to road-trip to go hear Diz? — or were you a student at Grinnell? (I forget where in Iowa you grew up too, for that matter.)

I had a better handle on all that a decade+ ago when we traded Iowa info, when I was trying to figure out how close you might’ve been to where my wife’s folks (separately) grew up in Stanhope (her dad) — and Jesup and later Hampton (her mom).

Idle curiosity is all, as always. Thx!

Edited April 15 by Rooster_Ties

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Trying to remember your chronology, Chuck (and geography).

You were still in college then, right? (Or was this in high school?) — definitely pre-Chicago, though. But did you have to road-trip to go hear Diz? — or were you a student at Grinnell? (I forget where in Iowa you grew up too, for that matter.)

I had a better handle on all that a decade+ ago when we traded Iowa info, when I was trying to figure out how close you might’ve been to where my wife’s folks (separately) grew up in Stanhope (her dad) — and Jesup and later Hampton (her mom).

Idle curiosity is all, as always. Thx!

I was in college in Iowa City and drove to Grinnell for the event.