Have Trumpet, Will Excite!

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Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
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Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1959
RecordedFebruary 17–18 & 20, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length40:06
Label Verve
MG V-8313
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie
(1959)		Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
(1959)		 The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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Have Trumpet, Will Excite! is a 1959 studio album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. [4]

Contents

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz rates the album three stars and states that "there's a case for saying that this is one of the best of all Gillespie's small-group albums: the playing has a steely refinement that makes the audacious moments stand out even further, the relatively neutral setting puts a more decisive face on the trumpet choruses, and it's a rare chance to hear Gillespie work through what might have been a hard-bop programme of standard tunes." [5]

Ronnie Lankford's AllMusic review says of the album, "Gillespie and the band, seem to say, 'We can play old swing tunes, but wouldn't it be cool if we turned them inside out?' This approach, along with sharp solos, gives the material an exciting edge." [6]

Track listing

Side A

  1. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) – 6:02
  2. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 4:19
  3. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 6:24
  4. "St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy) – 5:56

Side B

  1. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 6:23
  2. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 7:17
  3. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:26
  4. "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" (Al Dixon, Billy Rose, Harry Warren) – 6:59

CD bonus tracks

  1. "There Is No Greater Love" – 3:29
  2. "There Is No Greater Love" – 3:35
  3. "There Is No Greater Love" – 4:02
  4. "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" – 6:37

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 84. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 554. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Have Trumpet, Will Excite! at AllMusic
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN   9780140515213
  6. ↑ Have Trumpet, Will Excite! at AllMusic
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