The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7

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The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7
The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7.jpg
Live album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released 1975
Recorded July 16, 1975
Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre Jazz
Length39:57
Label Pablo
2310-749
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
(1975) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods1975		The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7
(1975)		 The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75
(1975) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '751975
Dizzy LP Cover
Dizzy LP.jpg

The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (also released as Dizzy) is a live album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Pablo label. [1]

Dizzy Gillespie American jazz trumpeter

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

Montreux Jazz Festival music festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Pablo Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Norman Granz in 1973, more than a decade after he had sold his labels to MGM Records.

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Reception

The Allmusic review called the album " good but not great set... There are many moments that elicit grins of pleasure, but none that cause jaws to gape with astonishment". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 16:43
  2. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 16:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 12:13
  4. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 11:01

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis American saxophonist

Edward F. Davis, known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Johnny Griffin American musician

John Arnold Griffin III was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the early 1940s and continued until the month of his death. A pioneering figure in hard bop, Griffin recorded prolifically as a bandleader in addition to stints with pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, in partnership with fellow tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and as a member of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band after he moved to Europe in the 1960s. In 1995, Griffin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

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References

  1. ↑ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 16, 2012
  2. 1 2 Mason, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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