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Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4

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Released
  
1975

Release date
  
1975

Label
  
Pablo Records

Length
  
44:38

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 17 & 19, 1974 Los Angeles, California

Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974)
  
The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)

Artists
  
Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

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Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (also released as Dizzy's Big 4) is an album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1974 and released on the Pablo label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review called the album "easily one of Dizzy Gillespie's best small-group recordings from the latter portion of his career".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Frelimo" - 8:14
  2. "Hurry Home" (Buddy Bernier, Joseph Meyer, Robert D. Emmerich) - 6:24
  3. "Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin) - 6:51
  4. "Be Bop (Dizzy's Fingers)" - 4:31
  5. "Birks' Works" - 8:55
  6. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 2:48
  7. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) - 6:55

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Joe Pass - guitar
  • Ray Brown - bass
  • Mickey Roker - drums
  • Songs

    1Frelimo8:15
    2Hurry Home6:27
    3Russian Lullaby6:55

    References

    Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 Wikipedia