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Jambo Caribe

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Released
  
1964

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Producer
  
Hal Mooney

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
32:57

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
November 4, 5 & 6, 1964 Universal Studios, Chicago

Jambo Caribe (1964)
  
Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965)

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

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Jambo Caribe is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1964 and released on the Limelight label.

Contents

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Reception

The Allmusic review states "The populist Dizzy Gillespie gets full rein in this lively, happy collection of tunes exploring rhythms and idioms from the Caribbean. Gillespie is in an ebullient mood, even offering some sly lead calypso vocals on three numbers".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Fiesta Mo-Jo" - 3:50
  2. "Barbados Carnival" (Chris White) - 2:55
  3. "Jambo" - 4:57
  4. "Trinidad, Hello" (Kenny Barron) - 4:20
  5. "Poor Joe" (Joe Willoughby) - 2:38
  6. "And Then She Stopped" - 3:15
  7. "Don't Try to Keep up with the Joneses" (Willoughby) - 2:36
  8. "Trinidad, Goodbye" (Barron) - 8:26
  • Recorded at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois on November 4 (tracks 2 & 6), November 5 (tracks 3-5) and November 6 (tracks 1, 7 & 8), 1964

    • Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, vocals
  • James Moody - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Kenny Barron - piano
  • Chris White - bass, vocals
  • Rudy Collins - drums
  • Kansas Fields - percussion

    • Songs

    1Fiesta Mojo3:51
    2Barbados Carnival3:00
    3Jambo5:02

    References

    Jambo Caribe Wikipedia
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