The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4

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The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4
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Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedMarch 10, 1980
Genre Jazz
Length37:49
Label Pablo Today
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Gillespie Jam
(1977)
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4
(1980)
The Alternate Blues
(1980)
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The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 is a 1980 album featuring the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Freddie Hubbard, supported by a quartet led by Oscar Peterson. Outtakes from the 1980 session that produced this album were released as The Alternate Blues . [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Daahoud" (Clifford Brown) – 8:38
  2. "Chicken Wings" (Ray Brown, Bobby Durham, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry) – 9:35
  3. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 11:58
  4. "The Champ" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 7:55

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 84. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 at AllMusic