Sittin' In (Dizzy Gillespie album)

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Sittin' In
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Released1957
RecordedJune 26, 1957
Studio WOR Recording Studio, New York City, NY
Genre Jazz
Length51:59
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz [1]
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith
(1957)
Sittin' In
(1957)
Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
(1957)
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Sittin' In is a 1957 studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, featuring the saxophonists Stan Getz, Paul Gonsalves and Coleman Hawkins. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dizzy Atmosphere" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 10:57
  2. "I'm Thru' with Love"/"Without a Word of Warning"/"Sweet Lorraine"/"Love Walked In"/"September Song" (Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston, Matty Malneck)/(Mack Gordon, Harry Revel)/(Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)/(George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)/(Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 11:00
  3. "On the Alamo"/"Stompin' at the Savoy"/"This Time the Dream's on Me"/"Time After Time"/"Gone with the Wind" (Kahn, Isham Jones)/(Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf)/(Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)/(Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)/(Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 12:29
  4. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 13:38

Personnel

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References

  1. "Dizzy Gillespie: Sittin' in album review @ All About Jazz".
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Sittin' In at AllMusic