Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie
06/07/2005 | Savoy Jazz
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All Music Guide Review
Dizzy Gillespie is heard at the height of his vanguard years on the single-disc compilation Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie, featuring 15 remastered tracks, recorded between 1945 and 1952 for the Savoy label. This is the era that Dizzy outgrew his all-star sideman status as trumpeter in Billy Eckstine's big band to become a first-rate bandleader, innovator, and showman in his own right. At this time he began to formulate three new directions in jazz: bebop, big-band bebop, and Afro-Cuban jazz. Of particular interest are six tracks that earmark the remarkably lucid and rapid-fire interplay of bebop invention between Dizzy and Charlie Parker, especially on three Gillespie-penned standards: "Salt Peanuts," "Groovin' High," and "Dizzy Atmosphere." Also of note are early appearances by future jazz stalwarts including tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, guitarist Kenny Burrell, and trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Even though Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie is by no means a complete representation of those evolutionary years, it does provide an excellent snapshot marking the inceptive brilliance of Dizzy Gillespie. ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide
Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie Track Listing
Credits of Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie
- John Lynch
- Trumpet
- Charlie Parker
- Sax (Alto)
- Curly Russell
- Bass
- Sarah Vaughan
- Vocals
- Stuff Smith
- Violin
- Elmon Wright
- Trumpet
- Specs Wright
- Drums
- Bill Milkowski
- Annotation
- Eleanor Slatkin
- Cello
- Dick Bock
- Original Session Producer
- Dick Kenney
- Trombone
- Phillip Shuken
- Flute (Alto)
- Pee Wee Moore
- Trombone
- Remo Palmieri
- Guitar
- Carlos Vidal Bolado
- Conga
- Harry Steinfeld
- Oboe
- Gordon Thomas
- Trombone
- Shirley Thompson
- Bassoon
- Howard E. Johnson
- Sax (Alto)
- Barbara Whitney
- Harp
- John Richard Lewis
- Piano
- Jack Shukman
- Violin
- Harold "Hal" Smith
- Trombone
- Sid Catlett
- Drums
- Paul "Scooby" Smith
- Piano
- Bill Graham
- Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
- Al Jones
- Drums
- Chris Carroll
- Art Direction
- Johnny Richards
- Arranger, Conductor
- Felix Slatkin
- Cello
- Percy Heath
- Bass
- Ray Abrams
- Sax (Tenor)
- Victor Arno
- Violin
- Art Blakey
- Drums
- Ray Brown
- Bass
- Kenny Burrell
- Guitar
- Kenny Clarke
- Drums
- Henry Coker
- Trombone
- John Coltrane
- Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
- Leon Comegys
- Trombone
- Talib Dawud
- Trumpet
- Frank Driggs
- Photography
- Walter Edelstein
- Violin
- Kansas Fields
- Drums
- Clyde Hart
- Piano
- J.J. Johnson
- Trombone
- Warren Luckey
- Sax (Tenor)
- Kenny Dorham
- Trumpet
- Gil Fuller
- Vocals
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Trumpet, Vocals, Original Session Producer
- Al Haig
- Piano
- Milt Jackson
- Organ, Piano, Vibraphone
- Budd Johnson
- Sax (Tenor)
- Leo Parker
- Sax (Baritone)
- Slam Stewart
- Bass
- Sonny Stitt
- Sax (Alto)
- Dave Burns
- Trumpet
- Cozy Cole
- Drums
- John Graas
- French Horn












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