Released 1956 Artist The Modern Jazz Sextet Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz | Length 42:26 Release date 1956 Label PolyGram | |
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Recorded January 12, 1956 at Fine Sound Studios, NYC Similar Dizzy and Strings, Dizzy Gillespie and the M, World Statesman, An Electrifying Evening, The Ebullient Mr Gilles | ||
The modern jazz sextet feat dizzy gillespie full album
The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip. The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records. Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
Contents
Two of the album's rhythm section - Lewis and Heath - also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet.
Reception
Allmusic gives the album 4 stars stating "it did not take too much insight to realize that putting trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and altoist Sonny Stitt together with a strong rhythm section would result in some explosive music. ...Bebop at its best".
Track listing
- "Tour De Force" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 11:39
- "Dizzy Meets Sonny" (Gillespie) - 7:59
- "Ballad Medley: Old Folks/What's New?/How Deep is the Ocean?" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robinson/Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke/Irving Berlin) - 7:10
- "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert) - 6:30
- "Blues for Bird" (Sonny Stitt, Gillespie) - 9:08
Credits
Songs
1Toure de Force11:44
2Dizzy Meets Sonny8:04
3Ballad Medley: Old Folks / What's New? / How Deep Is the Ocean?7:15