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Released
  
1954

Roy and Diz(1954)
  
Jazz Recital(1955)

Release date
  
1954

Label
  
Verve Records

Length
  
74:23

Roy and Diz(1954)
  
Urbane Jazz(1955)

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 29, 1954New York City

Artists
  
Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

Roy and Diz is an album by trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1954 and originally released on the Clef label as two separate volumes. Selections from these sessions were also released as Trumpet Battle and The Trumpet Kings

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 5:22
  2. "Algo Bueno (Woody 'N' You)" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 6:10
  3. "Trumpet Blues" (Roy Eldridge, Gillespie) - 7:54
  4. "Ballad Medley – I’m Through with Love/Can't We Be Friends/Don't You Know?/I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do/If I Had You" (Fud Livingston/Paul James, Kay Swift/Bobby Worth/Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk/Irving King, Ted Shapiro) - 10:17
  5. "Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 9:04
  6. "I've Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams) - 9:14
  7. "Pretty Eyed Baby" (Mary Lou Williams, Snub Mosley, William Luther Johnson) - 5:31
  8. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 10:57
  9. "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 9:54

The original LP track order was

  • Roy & Diz: Tracks 6, 8, 3, 2 & 7
  • Roy & Diz #2: Tracks 1, 4, 9 & 5
  • Trumpet Battle: Tracks 6, 8, 1 & 4
  • The Trumpet Kings: Tracks 3, 2, 7, 9 & 5

    • Personnel

  • Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, vocals
  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Herb Ellis - guitar
  • Ray Brown - bass
  • Louis Bellson - drums

    • Songs

    1Sometimes I'm Happy5:25
    2Algo Bueno6:12
    3Trumpet Blues7:57

    References

    Roy and Diz Wikipedia
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