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The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7

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Released
  
1975

Label
  
Pablo 2310-749

Release date
  
1975

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
39:57

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Producer
  
Norman Granz

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Recorded
  
July 16, 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland

The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975)
  
The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975)

Similar
  
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The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (also released as Dizzy) is a live album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Pablo label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review called the album " good but not great set... There are many moments that elicit grins of pleasure, but none that cause jaws to gape with astonishment".

Track listing

  1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 16:43
  2. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 16:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 12:13
  4. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 11:01

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone
  • Milt Jackson - vibraphone
  • Tommy Flanagan - piano
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass
  • Mickey Roker - drums
  • References

    The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 Wikipedia