It's My Way (Dizzy Gillespie album)

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It's My Way
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Released1969
Recorded1969
Genre Jazz
Length34:29
Label Solid State SS 18054
Producer Richard Carpenter
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band
(1968)
It's My Way
(1969)
Cornucopia
(1969)
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It's My Way (also released as My Way) is an album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring performances of popular songs recorded in 1969 and originally released on the Solid State label. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Galveston" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:38
  2. "This Girl's in Love with You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 4:00
  3. "Games People Play" (Joe South) - 2:58
  4. "Magic Tree" (Richard Carpenter, Gladys Bruce, Gerald Ginsberg) - 3:06
  5. "Whatever Possess'd Me" (Tadd Dameron, Bernie Hanighen) - 3:47
  6. "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot) - 3:10
  7. "Bésame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez) - 4:03
  8. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) - 3:03
  9. "Exotica" (L. Gillespie) - 4:17
  10. "Birk's Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:27

Personnel

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