Free Ride (album)

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Free Ride
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Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin
Released1977
RecordedJanuary 31 and February 1 & 2, 1977
Studio Wally Heider Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz
Length43:27
Label Pablo
2310-794
Producer Lalo Schifrin
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy's Party
(1976)		Free Ride
(1977)		 The Gifted Ones
(1977)

Free Ride is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie that was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin, recorded in 1977 and released on the Pablo label. [1] The album represents the first collaboration between the two since The New Continent in 1962.

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review stated: "The things that make Schifrin an anathema to the diehards -- the huge orchestras, the pop and soul riffs, the general air of over the top theatricality -- are all over 1977's Free Ride, his reunion date with Dizzy Gillespie... it's very much a record of and for its time". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Track listing

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin

  1. "Unicorn" - 6:48
  2. "Fire Dance" - 4:25
  3. "Incantation" - 6:40
  4. "Wrong Number" - 4:36
  5. "Free Ride" - 5:22
  6. "Ozone Madness" - 6:34
  7. "Love Poem for Donna" - 4:33
  8. "The Last Stroke of Midnight" - 4:29

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 18, 2012
  2. 1 2 Mason, S. AllMusic Review accessed April 18, 2012
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  83. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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