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The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1937-1949 (CD)

By: Dizzy Gillespie (Artist)

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Dizzy Gillespie Artist Snapshot:

If Charlie Parker was the chief architect of the bop revolution of the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie was its standard-bearer, an evangelist who battled public hostility and incomprehension with rapier wit. A trumpeter of dazzling virtuosity, he matched Parker's rhythmic innovations with deft harmonic ingenuity. He also functioned as teacher, putting his vast knowledge of harmony at the disposal of younger musicians like Miles Davis, who were trying to get a handle on the new sound. His historic big band featuring Chano Pozo was the first large-scale attempt to combine Latin music with jazz, and the unflagging excellence of his subsequent career was a tribute to the integrity of his original vision. He died in 1993.

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DISC 1 for The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1937-1949 (CD) Album By Dizzy Gillespie (Artist)
1   Manteca
2   Anthropology - (take 2)
3   King Porter Stomp - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
4   Yours And Mine - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
5   Blue Rhythm Fantasy - (with Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra)
6   Hot Mallets - (with Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra)
7   52nd Street Theme - (take 1)
8   52nd Street Theme - (take 2)
9   Night In Tunisia - (take 1)
10   Night In Tunisia - (incomplete take)
11   Ol' Man Rebop
12   Anthropology - (take 1)
13   Ow!
14   Oop-Pop-A-Da
15   Two Bass Hit
16   Stay On It
17   Algo Bueno (Woody 'N You)
18   Cool Breeze
19   Cubana Be
20   Cubana Bop
21   Ool-Ya-Koo
22   Minor Walk
 
DISC 2 for The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1937-1949 (CD) Album By Dizzy Gillespie (Artist)
1   Good Bait
2   Guarachi Guaro
3   Duff Capers
4   Lover, Come Back To Me
5   I'm Be Boppin' Too - (take 1)
6   Swedish Suite
7   St. Louis Blues
8   I Should Care
9   That Old Black Magic
10   You Go To My Head
11   Jump Did-Le Ba
12   Dizzier And Dizzier
13   I'm Be Boppin' Too - (take 2)
14   Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat
15   Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
16   If Love Is Trouble
17   In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee
18   Overtime - (shorter take, with Metronome All-Stars)
19   Overtime - (longer take, with Metronome All-Stars)
20   Victory Ball - (shorter take, with Metronome All-Stars)
21   Victory Ball - (longer take, with Metronome All-Stars)
 

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JazzTimes (7-8/95, p.111) - "...For a great many young jazz fans...these sides were their introduction to bebop, at the time a startling innovation hungrily snapping at the heels of the jazz mainstream..."
Vibe (12/99, p.157) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Title Note

Personnel includes: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Russell Procope, Howard Johnson, Ernie Henry (alto saxophone); Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Yusef Lateef (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Dicky Wells, Taswell Baird, William Shepherd (trombone); Clyde Hart, John Lewis, Sam Allen, Al Haig (piano); John Smith, John Collins, Charlie Christian, Bill DeArango (guitar); Richard Fullbright, Al McKibbon (bass); Bill Beason, Teddy Stewart, Kenny Clarke, Joe Harris, J.C. Heard (drums).

Recorded in New York from 1937-1949. Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler.

Digitally remastered by James Nichols (BMG Studios, New York).

THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS gathers under one roof all the seminal big-band recordings and small-group sessions Dizzy cut for the label during his great initial burst of creativity following World War II. Some rare Gillespie performances act as historical bookends to this set. There's his early work as a sideman with Teddy Hill and Lionel Hampton, when he was still under the sway of Roy Eldridge. And for the last word, there is the legendary 1949 Metronome All-Star date, featuring Charlie Parker and some of Dizzy's chief acolytes. Trumpeters Fats Navarro and Miles Davis pay tribute to Dizzy's stylistic dominance by engaging the master in an astonishing round-robin dialogue on the long version of "Overtime."

If Charlie Parker was the prophet of bebop, Gillespie was its high priest. Together they changed everyone's phrasing. As a soloist, Gillespie completely transformed his instrument, extending its range while adding layers of rhythmic and harmonic complexity. On solos such as "Two Bass Hit," "Algo Bueno (Woody 'N You)," and "St. Louis Blues," he routinely skydives from the horn's highest reaches. Yet his ballad "Dizzier And Dizzier" illustrates uncommon harmonic mastery and lyric restraint. And by including Afro-Cuban polyrhythms on his most famous tunes, "Manteca" and "Night In Tunisia," Dizzy altered the jazz groove forever, from straight fours to a free melodic pulse, paving the way for modern jazz and salsa.

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