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To Diz with Love

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Released
  
1992

Artist
  
Dizzy Gillespie

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
65:48

Release date
  
1992

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Recorded
  
January 29-31 and February 1, 1992 Blue Note Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, New York City

Label
  
Telarc International Corporation

Similar
  
Dizzy Gillespie albums, Jazz albums

To Diz with Love is a live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with an array of guest stars recorded at the Blue Note in 1992 and released on the Telarc label. The album, along with To Bird with Love and Bird Songs: The Final Recordings, represent the last recordings made by the trumpeter before his death in 1993.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "Although he was no longer up to the competition, the love that these fellow trumpeters had for Gillespie (and some fine solos) makes this historic CD worth getting".

Track listing

  1. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) - 14:31
  2. "Confirmation" (Parker) - 10:27
  3. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 12:48
  4. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 11:22
  5. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Felix Paparelli) - 16:40

Personnel

  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Doc Cheatham (track 3), Jon Faddis (track 3), Wynton Marsalis (tracks 2 & 4), Claudio Roditi (tracks 1 & 5), Wallace Roney (tracks 1 & 5), Charlie Sepulveda (track 4) - trumpet
  • Red Rodney - flugelhorn (track 2)
  • Junior Mance - piano
  • Peter Washington - bass
  • Kenny Washington - drums

    • References

    To Diz with Love Wikipedia
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