Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2021
Label: Waxtime
180-gram pressing
Includes 1 bonus track
Track List
Side A
- Dizzy’s Blues
- School Days
- Doodlin’
Side B
- Manteca
- I Remember Clifford
- Cool Breeze
- Carioca
Notes
DIZZY GILLESPIE AT NEWPORT 1957 180g. LIMITED EDITION HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING “Dizzy Gillespie’s second great big band at the peak of its powers. This brilliant album captures one of the high points of Dizzy’s remarkable career and is highly recommended.” (Scott Yanow) DIZZY GILLESPIE & His Orchestra: Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet & vocals; Lee Morgan, E.V. Perry, Carl Warwick, Talib Ahmad Dawud, trumpets; Melba Liston, Al Grey, Ray Connors, trombones; Jimmy Powell, Ernie Henry, alto sax; Billy Mitchell, Benny Golson, tenor saxes; Pee Wee Moore, baritone sax; Wynton Kelly, piano; Mary Lou Williams, piano on B4 only replacing Kelly; Paul West, bass; Charlie Persip, drums. Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 6, 1957. Original recording produced by Norman Granz.
