Groovin' High (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Groovin' High
Type = Compilation
Artist = Dizzy Gillespie


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1945-Dec 11, 1947
Genre = Jazz, Bebop
Length = 36:38
Label = Savoy Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfoxq8gldje~T0 link]

"Groovin' High" is a 1992 compilation album of live sessions by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. "The Rough Guide to Jazz" describes the album as "some of the key bebop small-group and big-band recordings".cite book | last = Carr | first = Ian | coauthors=Brian Fairweather and Charles Alexander Priestley | title = The Rough Guide to Jazz | publisher = Rough Guides | date = 2004| pages = 293 | isbn = 1843532565] Jazz critic Scott Yanow concedes that the music included is classic, but dismisses the compilation over-all as "so-so" because of its brevity, because of the out of date and lightweight liner notes and because the material presented does not represent the complete sessions at which the material was played. [allmusic|id=10:hvfoxq8gldje|label=Groovin' High] The compilation features Gillespie with a number of combinations and other musicians, including his 1946 big band, Charlie Parker, a sextet with Dexter Gordon, and a combo featuring Sonny Stitt.

Track listing

#"Blue 'N' Boogie" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 3:00
#"Groovin' High" (Gillespie, Paparelli) – 2:40
#"Dizzy Atmosphere" (Gillespie) – 2:45
#"All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 2:52
#"Salt Peanuts" (Kenny Clarke, Gillespie) – 2:20
#"Hot House" (Tadd Dameron) – 2:27
#"Oop Bop Sh'Bam" (Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Gillespie) – 3:06
#"That's Earl, Brother" (Brown, Fuller, Gillespie) – 2:55
#"Our Delight" (Dameron) – 2:40
#"One Bass Hit, Pt. 2" (Brown, Fuller, Gillespie) – 2:46
#"Things to Come" (Fuller, Gillespie) – 2:47
#"Ray's Idea" (Brown, Fuller, Gillespie) – 3:09
#"Emanon" (Gillespie, Shaw) – 3:11

Personnel

*Ray Abrams – saxophone, sax (tenor)
*Taswell Baird – trombone
*John Brown – saxophone, sax (alto)
*Ray Brown – bass
*Dave Burns – trumpet
*Scoops Carey – saxophone, sax (alto)
*Big Sid Catlett – drums
*Kenny Clarke – drums
*Cozy Cole – drums
*Leon Cormenge – trombone
*Talib Dawud] – trumpet
*Kenny Dorham – trumpet
*Bill Frazier – saxophone
*Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, leader
*Dexter Gordon – sax (tenor)
*Al Haig – piano
*Joe Harris – drums
*Clyde Hart – piano
*Milt Jackson – vibraphone
*Howard E. Johnson – saxophone, sax (alto)
*Yujiro Kasai – remastering
*John Lewis – piano
*Warren Lucky – saxophone, sax (tenor)
*John Lynch – trumpet
*Shelly Manne – drums
*Matthew McKay – trumpet
*Alton Moore – trombone
*Raymond Orr – trumpet
*Remo Palmieri – guitar
*Frank Paparelli – piano
*Charlie Parker – alto, sax (alto)
*Leo Parker – sax (baritone)
*Curly Russell – bass
*Murray Shipinski – bass
*Sonny Stitt – sax (alto)
*Gordon Thomas – trombone
*Lucky Thompson – sax (tenor)
*Rudy Van Gelder – remastering
*Chuck Wayne – guitar
*Elmon Wright – trumpet

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