Jazz Recital

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Jazz Recital
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Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1956
RecordedMay 25 & June 8, 1954, and September 12 & November 8, 1955
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Norgran
MGN 1083 [1]
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Roy and Diz
(1954)		Jazz Recital
(1956)		 One Night in Washington
(1955)
Professional ratings
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Jazz Recital (also released as Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra) is an album by the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded in 1954 and 1955 and released on the Norgran label. It consists of quintet, sextet and jazz orchestra tracks. [5]

Contents

Release and reception

Jazz Recital was released by Norgran Records in 1956 and by Verve Records the following year. [5] Two of the tracks from the album were also released as singles. [6]

Billboard wrote that: "Diz is the whole show instrumentally, and he's in great form, musically and commercially". [6] In his DownBeat review, Ralph J. Gleason's summary was: "Despite the magnificence of Dizzy's trumpet on several of these tracks, notably the beautifully moody 'Blue Mood', this is an uneven album." [3] He praised the playing of trombonist Jimmy Cleveland on 'Rails' and saxophonist Hank Mobley in the small-group recordings, but asserted that vocalist Toni Harper "simply does not make it in this league". [3] In his 1950s review of Gillespie's recordings, John S. Wilson described two Verve releases – Jazz Recital and Birks' Works – as "leftover odds and ends which makes a spotty program". [7]

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie and Buster Harding except as indicated

  1. "Sugar Hips" (Dizzy Gillespie, Wade Legge) – 5:16
  2. "Hey Pete" (Gillespie, Buster Harding, Lester Peterson) – 5:07
  3. "Money Honey" (Jesse Stone) – 2:30
  4. "Blue Mood" – 3:29
  5. "Rails" – 3:30
  6. "Devil and the Flesh" – 3:21
  7. "Rumbola" – 3:25
  8. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 3:26
  9. "Play Me The Blues" –
  10. "(Seems Like) You Just Don't Care" (Kitty Noble, Rose Marie McCoy) –

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   9781440229169 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra – Dizzy Gillespie, AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 Gleason, Ralph J. (October 31, 1956). "Dizzy Gillespie". DownBeat . Vol. 23, no. 22. p. 25.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 Dizzy Gillespie discography. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
  6. 1 2 "Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Recital". The Billboard . Vol. 63, no. 38. September 22, 1956. pp. 44, 68.
  7. ↑ Wilson, John S. (1959). The Collector's Jazz: Modern. J. B. Lippincott. p. 114.
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