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Bird Songs: The Final Recordings

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Released
  
1992

Label
  
Telarc 83421

Release date
  
1992

Length
  
62:58

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
January 23–25, 1992 Blue Note Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, New York City

Bird Songs The Final Recordings (1992)
  
To Bird with Love (1992)

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

Bird Songs: The Final Recordings is a live album trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with an array of guest stars recorded at the Blue Note in 1992 and released on the Telarc label. The album, along with To Bird with Love and To Diz with Love, represent the last recordings made by the legendary trumpeter before his death in 1993.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "This album and its companions might have worked better as videos, where one could still bask in Dizzy's live presence and thus experience the atmosphere of this celebration more fully".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Ornithology" (Benny Harris, Charlie Parker) – 15:31
  2. "Con Alma" – 9:20
  3. "Confirmation" (Parker) – 10:41
  4. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Felix Paparelli) – 21:46
  5. "The Diamond Jubilee Blues" – 4:14
  6. "The Theme" (Miles Davis) – 1:26

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
  • Antonio Hart (track 3), Paquito D'Rivera (track 1), Jackie McLean (track 1) – alto saxophone
  • Benny Golson (tracks 4–6), Clifford Jordan (track 3), David Sánchez (tracks 4–6) – tenor saxophone
  • Danilo Pérez – piano
  • George Mraz – bass
  • Kenny Washington (tracks 4–6), Lewis Nash (tracks 1–3) – drums
  • Bobby McFerrin – vocals (track 1)

    • References

    Bird Songs: The Final Recordings Wikipedia
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