An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Live album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released	1961
Recorded	February 9, 1961
Venue	Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:41
Label	Verve
Producer	Charles Shwartz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Gillespiana (1960) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
DownBeat	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet is a 1961 live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. ^[1]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Kush"	Dizzy Gillespie	11:01
2.	"Salt Peanuts"	Kenny Clarke, Gillespie	7:08

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Night in Tunisia"	Gillespie, Frank Paparelli	6:46
2.	"The Mooche"	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	11:43
Total length:			36:38

CD reissue bonus track

No.	Title	Length
5.	"Interview with Dizzy Gillespie by Charles Shwartz"	18:03
Total length:		54:41

Personnel

• Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
• Leo Wright – alto saxophone, flute
• Lalo Schifrin – piano
• Bob Cunningham – bass
• Chuck Lampkin – drums
• Candido Camero – conga

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Down Beat: April 12, 1962 Vol. 29, No. 8
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 554. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.