Personnel:
Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Charlie Parker, James Moody (as), Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt (ts), Milt Jackson (vib), Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Kenny Clarke (d)
Reference: DRCD 11382
Bar code: 8436006493829
This edition compiles Dizzy Gillespies seminal be-bop studio recordings, made for the small labels Guild and Musicraft. These are mainly small group sessions but there are also recordings by the Dizzy Gillespie big band.
All of these tunes became classics, especially Things to Come and Dizs ballad I Waited For You, which he would use as his theme song on radio shows for many years. These were some of Dizs earliest hits in an extended career which would end with his death in 1993.
Tracklisting:
01. BLUE ´N´ BOOGIE
02. GROOVIN´ HIGH
03. ALL THE THINS YOU ARE
04. DIZZY ATMOSPHERE
05. SALT PEANUTS
06. SHAW ´NUFF
07. LOVER MAN
08. HOT HOUSE
09. ONE BASS HIT (PART 1)
10. OOP-BOP-SH´BAM
11. A HAND FULLA GIMME
12. THAT´S EARL, BROTHER
13. HE BEEPED WHEN HE SHOULD A BOPPED
14. OUR DELIGHT
15. GOOD DUES BLUES
16. ONE BASS HIT (PART 2)
17. RAY´S IDEA
18. THINGS TO COME
19. HE BEEPED WHEN HE SHOULDA BOPPED
20. I WAITED FOR YOU
21. EMANON
22. FOR HECKLERS ONLY
23. SMOKY HOLLOW BLUES
24. BOPPIN´ THE BLUES
25. MOODY SPEAKS
26. INTERLUDE (A NIGHT IN TUNISIA)
Total time: 76:07 min.
Recorded in New York, between January 1945-September 1946.
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet on all tracks.
The Guild-Musicraft sessions featured: Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, James Moody, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Kenny Clarke, among others.
