need recommendations for DIZZY albums

Ruechel · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:12 am Post subject:

i recently noticed that i don't really listen to a lot of dizzy (although i maybe should) i only have "massey hall" and "roy and diz" does anyone care to recommend some more great, original albums by the man? much appreciated

nick

musiclifeline · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:33 am Post subject:

Groovin' High
The Champ
Shaw 'Nuff
Dizzy's Diamonds (compilation)
Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz
The Copenhagen Concert
Bird and Diz
He's also on several important early Bird sessions from 1945... check the All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com)

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JackD · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:42 am Post subject:

I'll second Diz and Getz, also look up some of the stuff he did with Bird.

Ruechel · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:19 am Post subject:

many thanks....

nick

Tom K. · Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 483

I'll second Dizzy's Diamonds, which has a rich panoply of types of music and types of ensembles: I especially love the tune "Rio Pakistan" with Stuff Smith on fiddle. Also, The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever (Jazz at Massey Hall) with Charlie Parker.

Rich_Nichols · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:45 am Post subject:

'Have Trumpet Will Excite'
'The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie'
'Gillespiana'
'Live at Newport'
'Birks Works' (2CD thing of the big band with Wynton Kelly, Charli Persip, Lee Morgan, Al Grey, etc)
'Sonny Side Up' (!!!!!!)
Also (or first!) anything with Bird
a thing on Pablo called 'Jazz Maturity- where it's coming from'
'Swing Low Sweet Cadillac'

Anything you can find. No trumpet player can have too many Dizzy records. Listen to them until you feel dizzy, you dig?

Xenoman · Heavyweight Member Joined: 19 Nov 2001 Posts: 1209

Definitely check out "Have Trumpet Will Excite"
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fuzzyjon79 · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject:

My favorite Dizzy tune is Manteca.... anybody know which CD that might be on?
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Chadly · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject:

DO check out "Sonny Side Up"

AMAZING album, he even sings on it.

Chad

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bluenote · Veteran Member Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 366

'Diz and Roy', which was recorded in 1954 at the height of Diz's playing powers.

Roy Eldridge was a great trumpet player, but Diz plays some of the most fantastic trumpet stuff I've ever heard on that record. They're both doing everything they can to cut each other.

PS: if you get it, DO NOT fast forward the piano solos, either. Oscar Peterson is on it. His solos on 'Limehouse Blues:' LOOK OUT!

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jhatpro · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:46 am Post subject:

The 3-disk Odyssey set is filled with great Dizzy from '45 through '52. My favorite is "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped," from a session he recorded with his 18-piece orchestra in New York in 1946.

This set has a lot of soon-to-be-famous players on it, including James Moody, Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, and J.J. Johnson.
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bulos · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:48 am Post subject:

Pops, Roy, & Diz .... this is jazz trumpet defined. These 3 masters ARE jazz trumpet essentially for everyone else comes out of them. Pops is like a supernova....he shines brightest and seems to have evolved from his own energies. Roy and Diz are the planets he created. Early Roy sounds almost exactly like Pops (Louis Armstrong) and likewise early Diz sounds amazingly like Roy Eldridge. (Kenny Dorham also told me his main influence was Roy) This younger generation that only knows from Woody Shaw, Freddy Hubbard and later guys is missing the whole story. INMNSHO modern jazz trumpeting is defined by Dizzy and he has no equal, trumpet wise, conceptually, rhythmically, every-which-way. in his prime Diz was the Houdini of the horn. Roy defined swing and Pops started it all. Anything either of these guys recorded is important however amongst my favorites by Dizzy are the things with Bird (live from Birdland), his first and second big bands, Diz with Strings, Gillespiana, Diz,Rollins, and Stitt, and Diz and Getz.
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