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To Bird with Love

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Released
  
1992

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
63:20

Release date
  
1992

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Recorded
  
January 25, 1992 Blue Note Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, New York City

To Bird With Love (1992)
  
To Diz with Love (1992)

Label
  
Telarc International Corporation

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

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To Bird with Love is a live album trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with an array of guest stars recorded at the Blue Note in 1992 and released on the Telarc label. Along with Bird Songs: The Final Recordings and To Diz with Love the album represents the final recordings by the trumpet legend.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "The good spirits and obvious love that these musicians had for Gillespie make up for his technical lapses".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) - 15:21
  2. "Bebop" - 11:44
  3. "Ornithology" (Benny Harris, Parker) - 10:40
  4. "Anthropology" (Gillespie, Parker) - 10:56
  5. "Oop-Pop-A-Da" (Babs Gonzales) - 11:21
  6. "The Diamond Jubilee Blues" - 1:53
  7. "The Theme" (Miles Davis)- 1:25

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Antonio Hart (tracks 2-4), Paquito D'Rivera (tracks 5-7), Jackie McLean (tracks 5-7) - alto saxophone
  • Benny Golson (track 1), Clifford Jordan (tracks 2-4), David Sánchez (track 1) - tenor saxophone
  • Danilo Pérez - piano
  • George Mraz - bass
  • Kenny Washington (tracks 1 & 5-7), Lewis Nash (tracks 2-7) - drums
  • Bobby McFerrin - vocals (tracks 5-7)

    • Songs

    1Billie's Bounce15:30
    2Bebop11:54
    3Ornithology10:53

    References

    To Bird with Love Wikipedia
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