Dizzy Digs Paris
Dizzy Digs Paris | ||||
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Compilation album by Dizzy Gillespie | ||||
Released | 2006 | |||
Recorded | February 9, 1953 at the Salle Pleyel, February 22, 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan and February 27, 1953 in Paris, France | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Giant Steps | |||
Dizzy Gillespie chronology | ||||
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Dizzy Digs Paris is a compilation album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his band featuring concert and studio performances recorded in Paris in 1953 and originally released on the French Disques Vogue and Blue Star labels.[1] Many of the tracks were first released as 78 rpm records but were later released on albums including Dizzy Over Paris (Roost) and Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra (Fontana). The album also includes eight tracks recorded by Dizzy's rhythm section led by Wade Legge but without Gillespie that were originally released on a 10" album.[2]
Reception
The Allmusic review stated "As a whole, the two-CD set might not be a major entry in the Gillespie discography, but it's a good one. And it's certainly hard to imagine a more complete package of this 1953 Salle Pleyel concert, complemented as it is by studio material recorded by the same musicians at the same time and place".[3]
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Track listing
All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated
Disc One:
- "Intro (Rehearsal Blues)" – 1:31
- "The Champ" – 9:22
- "Good Bait" (Tadd Dameron, Count Basie) – 9.50
- "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" – 4:10
- "Ghost of a Chance" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) –
- "Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:50
- "Mon Homme" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:53
- "(I've Got) The Bluest Blues" (Gary McFarland, Sir Charles Thompson) – 3:51
- "Birks' Works" – 9:36
- "Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be" (Gillespie, Joe Carroll, Bill Graham) – 3:28
- "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) –
- "Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:06
- "Play Fiddle Play" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence, Emery Deutsch) – 3:16
- "I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) – 4:29
- "Tin Tin Deo" (Gillespie, Chano Pozo) – 4:11
- "On The Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) –
Disc Two:
- "School Days" (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 7:04
- "Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 2:34
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 4:16
- "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 2:58
- "Mon Homme" (Charles, Pollock, Willemetz, Yvain) – 2:41
- "Clappin' Rhythm" – 2:15
- "Fais Gaffe (Watch Out) – 3:58
- "Moon Nocture" – 2:27
- "This Is the Way" – 2:35
- "'S Wonderful" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:16
- "Oo-Bla-Dee" (Milt Orent, Mary Lou Williams) – 3:03
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:51
- "Jalousie" (Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade) – 2:36
- "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 2:37
- "Fine and Dandy" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:44
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 2:24
- "Pennies from Heaven" (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston) – 2:25
- "Perdido" (Juan Tizol) – 3:08
- "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, Gus Kahn) – 3:16
- "Wade Legge's Blues" (Wade Legge) – 3:44
- "A Swedish Folk Song" (Traditional) – 3:11
- "Dance Of The Infidels" (Bud Powell) – 3:14
- "Aren't You Glad You're You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:15
- "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 2:52
- "Why Don't You Believe Me?" (Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Rodde) – 2:52
Recorded on February 9, 1953, at the Salle Pleyel (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1) and on February 22, 1953, at the Studio Pathe Magellan (Disc Two, tracks 2–17) and February 27, 1953 (Disc Two, tracks 18–25), in Paris, France
Personnel
- Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, piano, vocals, congas (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1–17)
- Nat Peck – trombone (Disc Two, tracks 4–11)
- Bill Graham – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1)
- Wade Legge – piano
- Lou Hackney – bass
- Al Jones – drums
- Joe Carroll, Sarah Vaughan – vocals (Disc One, track 12, Disc Two, track 1)
- The Paris Operatic String Orchestra arranged by Michel Legrand (Disc Two, tracks 2, 3 & 12–16)
References
- v
- t
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- Bird and Diz (1952)
- Afro (1954)
- Diz and Getz (1955)
- Dizzy and Strings (1954)
- Roy and Diz (1954)
- Jazz Recital (1956)
- The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
- World Statesman (1956)
- Dizzy in Greece (1956)
- For Musicians Only (1956)
- Birks' Works (1957)
- Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957)
- Sittin' In (1957)
- Duets (1957)
- The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957)
- Sonny Side Up (1959)
- The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959)
- Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)
- A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960)
- Gillespiana (1960)
- Perceptions (1961)
- The New Continent (1962)
- New Wave (1963)
- Something Old, Something New (1963)
- Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964)
- Jambo Caribe (1964)
- I/We Had a Ball (1965)
- Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965)
- The Melody Lingers On (1966)
- It's My Way (1969)
- Cornucopia (1969)
- The Real Thing (1970)
- Portrait of Jenny (1970)
- Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974)
- The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)
- Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
- Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974)
- The Bop Session (1975)
- Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975)
- Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975)
- Bahiana (1975)
- Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976)
- Dizzy's Party (1976)
- Free Ride (1977)
- The Gifted Ones (1977)
- The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980)
- The Alternate Blues (1980)
- To a Finland Station (1983)
- Closer to the Source (1984)
- New Faces (1985)
- Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986)
- Endlessly (1988)
- Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957)
- An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961)
- Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)
- Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962)
- Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963)
- Live at the Village Vanguard (1967)
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967)
- The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968)
- Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971)
- Giants (1971)
- The Giants of Jazz (1971)
- The Giant (1973)
- The Source (1973)
- The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975)
- The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975)
- Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977)
- Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980)
- Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981)
- One Night in Washington (1983)
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989)
- Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989)
- Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992)
- To Bird with Love (1992)
- To Diz with Love (1992)
albums
- Modern Jazz Trumpets (1951)
- Groovin' High (1955)
- Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976)
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995)
- The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952–1953 (2004)
- Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)
- The Cool World (1964)
- The Winter in Lisbon (1990)
- "Anthropology"
- "Birks' Works"
- "Blue 'n' Boogie"
- "Con Alma"
- "Dizzy Atmosphere"
- "Groovin' High"
- "Manteca"
- "A Night in Tunisia"
- "Oop Bop Sh'Bam"
- "Salt Peanuts"
- "Woody 'n' You"
- To Be or Not to Bop (1979)
- List of works
- Bird (1988 film)