Montreux '77: Dizzy Gillespie Jam

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Montreux '77: Dizzy Gillespie Jam
Dizzy Gillespie Jam LP.jpg
Live album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1977
RecordedJuly 14, 1977
Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre Jazz
Length44:24
Label Pablo Live
2308-211
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Gifted Ones
(1977)		Montreux '77: Dizzy Gillespie Jam
(1977)		 The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4
(1979)
Reissue cover
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Montreux '77: Dizzy Gillespie Jam is a live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977 and released on the Pablo label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Music Week Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

In a contemporary review, Music Week commented on Gillespie's continued popularity, adding that Montreux '77 is a jam session set that "finds Diz in sparkling form" aided by his bandmates, complimenting Gillespie's muted trumpet playing on "Girl of My Dreams" and Milt Jackson's poised playing on the ballad "But Beautiful" but particularly praising Jon Faddis for his "remarkabnle solo" on "Here's That Rainy Day". [4]

The AllMusic review stated that "few fireworks occur in what should have been an explosive encounter". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Girl of My Dreams" (Sunny Clapp) - 13:56
  2. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 7:51
  3. "Medley: Once in a While/But Beautiful/Here's That Rainy Day" (Michael Edwards, Bud Green/Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen/Burke, Van Heusen) - 13:03
  4. "The Champ" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 9:34

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 18, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed April 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ Feather, Leonard (August 27, 1989). "Norman Granz and the Pablo Jazz Jam". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 60.
  4. 1 2 "Album Reviews" (PDF). Music Week: 92. January 21, 1978. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  5. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 281.
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