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The Alternate Blues

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Released
  
1980

Length
  
40:01

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
March 10, 1980

Release date
  
1980

Label
  
Pablo Today

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The Alternate Blues (1980)
  
Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980)

Artists
  
Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

The Alternate Blues is a 1980 album featuring the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Freddie Hubbard, supported by a quartet led by Oscar Peterson. The tracks were outtakes from The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Alternate Blues": Alternate One – 5:33
  2. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Two – 8:04
  3. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Three – 9:05
  4. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Four – 9:36
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 8:55
  6. Ballad Medley: "Here's That Rainy Day"/"The Gypsy"/"If I Should Lose You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)/(Billy Reid)/(Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 7:37

Performance

  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Clark Terry – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Joe Pass – guitar
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Bobby Durham – drums

    • Songs

    1Alternate OneOscar Peterson5:25
    2Alternate TwoOscar Peterson8:04
    3Alternate ThreeOscar Peterson9:20

    References

    The Alternate Blues Wikipedia
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