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Released
  
1981

Producer
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Release date
  
1981

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
41:03

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

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Recorded
  
July 19, 1980Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland

Digital at Montreux, 1980(1980)
  
Musician, Composer, Raconteur(1981)

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

Digital at Montreux, 1980 is a live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with Toots Thielemans and Bernard Purdie recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1980 and released on the Pablo label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "Purdie, a consummate funk and R&B percussionist, makes the switch to mainstream material adequately, while Gillespie and Thielemans establish a quick, consistent rapport".

Track listing

  1. Introduction by Claude Nobs - 0:51
  2. "Christopher Columbus" (Chu Berry, Andy Razaf) - 9:30
  3. "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (Ray Henderson, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 12:20
  4. "Manteca" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo) - 9:20
  5. "Get That Booty" (Gillespie) - 2:22
  6. "Kisses" (Gillespie) - 6:40

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, piano, cowbell, Jew's harp, vocals
  • Toots Thielemans - guitar
  • Bernard Purdie - drums

    • Songs

    1Introduction by Claude Nobs0:51
    2Christopher Columbus9:47
    3I'm Sitting on Top of This World12:29

    References

    Digital at Montreux, 1980 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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