Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie | ||||
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Released | 1965 | |||
Recorded | October 1965 Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 36:12 | |||
Label | Pacific Jazz PJ 93 | |||
Producer | Richard Bock | |||
Dizzy Gillespie chronology | ||||
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Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Gil Fuller featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Pacific Jazz label. [1] The album was rereleased on CD combined with Fuller's Night Flight (Pacific Jazz, 1965) on the Blue Note label as Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody in 2008. [2]
The Allmusic review called the album "A bit of a disappointment... the big band is mostly heard from in a purely accompanying role behind the great trumpeter and little interplay occurs". [3]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
All compositions by Gil Fuller except as indicated
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