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The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
44:54

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Hallmark Records

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Recorded
  
February 17, 18 & 20, 1959 New York City

The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959)
  
Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1959 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review calls the album "A pleasing -- if not all that essential -- date of melodic music from the masterful trumpeter".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" - 7:06
  2. "Always" (Irving Berlin) - 5:34
  3. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 7:20
  4. "Ungawa" (Gillespie, Oswaldo Nuñez) - 3:19
  5. "Lorraine" - 4:14
  6. "Girl of My Dreams" (Sunny Clapp) - 7:41
  7. "Constantinople" - 7:00
  8. "Umbrella Man" (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh) - 2:40

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, vocals
  • Junior Mance - piano
  • Les Spann - guitar, flute
  • Sam Jones - bass
  • Lex Humphries - drums
  • Carlos "Patato" Valdes - congas

    • Songs

    1Swing Low - Sweet Cadillac7:04
    2Always5:41
    3Willow Weep For Me7:28

    References

    The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie Wikipedia
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