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Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High / The Jazz Masters Series / Featuring Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Dexter Gordon, Don Byas / King of "The Street" / Audio CD 1999 / PlatCD 514
UPC 5014293651424
MADE IN THE EU
TOTAL TIME: 74 MINUTES
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols.
In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz.
He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated [....] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time".Tracklist:
| 1 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | Blue 'n' Boogie | |
| 2 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | Groovin' High | |
| 3 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | Dizzy Atmosphere | |
| 4 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | All The Things You Are | |
| 5 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet , vocal Dizzy Gillespie | Salt Peanuts | |
| 6 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet | Shaw 'Nuff | |
| 7 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet | Hot House | |
| 8 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | 52nd Street Theme | |
| 9 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | A Night In Tunisia | |
| 10 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Ol' Man Rebop | |
| 11 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Anthropology | |
| 12 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | One Bass Hit (Part 1) | |
| 13 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet , vocal Dizzy Gillespie and Gil Fuller | Oop, Bop Sh'Bam | |
| 14 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet , vocal Alice Roberts | A Handful Of Gimmie | |
| 15 | –Dizzy Gillespie Sextet | That's Earl, Brother | |
| 16 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Our Delight | |
| 17 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Things To Come | |
| 18 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Emanon | |
| 19 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Ow! | |
| 20 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Algo Bueno (Woody 'n' You) | |
| 21 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra , vocal Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Hagood | Cool Breeze | |
| 22 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Cubano Be | |
| 23 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra , vocal Chano Pozo | Cubano Bop | |
| 24 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Manteca | |
| 25 | –Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra | Good Bait |
