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Dizzy Gillespie at Newport Live album by Dizzy Gillespie Released 1957 Recorded July 6, 1957 Genre Jazz Length 51:59 Label Verve Producer Norman Granz Dizzy Gillespie chronology Sittin' In
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Dizzy Gillespie at Newport is a 1957 live album by Dizzy Gillespie, featuring his big band. [2]
Contents
Track listing
- "Dizzy's Blues" (Dizzy Gillespie, A.K. Salim) – 11:51
- "School Days" (Chuck Berry, Stanley Clarke, Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 5:47
- "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver) – 7:56
- "Manteca" (Gil Fuller, Gillespie, Chano Pozo) – 7:11
- "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) – 4:48
- "Cool Breeze" (Tadd Dameron, Billy Eckstine, Gillespie) – 10:33
- Zodiac Suite: "Virgo"/"Libra"/"Aries" (Mary Lou Williams) – 10:28
- "Carioca" (Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn, Vincent Youmans) – 3:41
- "A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 10:00
Background
- In "Manteca", the big band chants, "I'll never go back to Georgia", in reference to the racial prejudice Dizzy's band experienced on a stop there during its 1945 tour.
Personnel
Performance
- Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
- Benny Golson - arranger, tenor saxophone
- Tadd Dameron - arranger
- Quincy Jones
- Ernie Wilkins
- Paul E. West - double bass
- Charlie Persip - drums
- Wynton Kelly - piano
- Mary Lou Williams
- Jimmy Powell - alto saxophone
- Ernie Henry
- Pee Wee Moore - baritone saxophone
- Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone
- Chuck Conner - trombone
- Al Grey
- Melba Liston
- Talib Dawud - trumpet
- Lee Morgan
- E.V. Perry
- Ermet Perry
- Carl Warwick
References
Categories:- Dizzy Gillespie live albums
- Albums produced by Norman Granz
- Albums recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival
- 1957 live albums
- Verve Records live albums
- Albums arranged by Tadd Dameron
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