Career: 1937-1992

Editorial Reviews
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You can tell from the earliest recordings on this remarkable set, which covers five-and-a-half decades of music, Dizzy Gillespie already had personality and vitality pouring forth from his performances. The stunning length of his career is testament to the solid grounding he received as a young professional learning from masters and colleagues. A two year stint with Cab Calloway when he was just 21 allowed him to see a skillful band leader up close. Drawing from this experience, Dizzy applied these learned skills when he formed his own outfit in the mid-forties. One of bebop's strongest proponents, Dizzy also had an appetite for incorporating various styles music, particularly the dynamic rhythms of Cuba. A veritable ambassador of goodwill known around the world, Gillespie lived for music, working into the last year of his life. --David Greenberger

Album Description
The ultimate career-spanning Dizzy Gillespie collection! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet!

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was one of the founding fathers of be-bop. He was also one of the first to fuse be-bop, R&B and swing in his own big band (which launched the careers of many musicians), and pioneered Latin jazz with "Manteca," which is usually cited as the first Latin jazz recording. He went on to become an elder statesman of jazz, touring the world on behalf of the United States government and the United Nations. Throughout his career, he was the epitome of jazz creativity, style and humor, as Career: 1937–1992 illustrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career.

Tracks:

King Porter Stomp - Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra
Pickin' The Cabbage - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
Opus X - Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra
I Can't Get Started - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Good Bait - Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
Blue 'N' Boogie - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
All The Things You Are - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Dizzy Atmosphere - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Oop-Bob-Sh'bam - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Things To Come - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Two Bass Hit - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Cubana Be/Cubana Bop - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Jump Did-Le Ba - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Hey Pete! Let's Eat Mo' Meat! - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Bloomdido - Charlie Parker & His Orchestra
Birk's Works - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
I've Found A New Baby - Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge
Salt Peanuts - The Quintet

Tracks:

Perdido - The Quintet
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz
Mean To Me - The Modern Jazz Sextet
Cool Breeze - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
I Remember Clifford - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Woody 'N' You - Dizzy Gillespie & The Mitchell-Ruff Duo
Exuberante - Dizzy Gillespie, Y Machito
Wheatleigh Hall - Dizzy Gillespie & Arturo Sandoval
Bebop - Dizzy Gillespie

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You can tell from the earliest recordings on this remarkable set, which covers five-and-a-half decades of music, Dizzy Gillespie already had personality and vitality pouring forth from his performances. The stunning length of his career is testament to the solid grounding he received as a young professional learning from masters and colleagues. A two year stint with Cab Calloway when he was just 21 allowed him to see a skillful band leader up close. Drawing from this experience, Dizzy applied these learned skills when he formed his own outfit in the mid-forties. One of bebop's strongest proponents, Dizzy also had an appetite for incorporating various styles music, particularly the dynamic rhythms of Cuba. A veritable ambassador of goodwill known around the world, Gillespie lived for music, working into the last year of his life. --David Greenberger

Album Description

The ultimate career-spanning Dizzy Gillespie collection! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet!

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was one of the founding fathers of be-bop. He was also one of the first to fuse be-bop, R&B and swing in his own big band (which launched the careers of many musicians), and pioneered Latin jazz with "Manteca," which is usually cited as the first Latin jazz recording. He went on to become an elder statesman of jazz, touring the world on behalf of the United States government and the United Nations. Throughout his career, he was the epitome of jazz creativity, style and humor, as Career: 1937-1992 illustrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career.

Customer Reviews:

A great introduction to bebop's finest.......2005-07-19

How best to illustrate the work of a legend, especially one so prolific as Dizzy Gillespie? Over 55 years and with 383 search results returned from a search for "Dizzy Gillespie" here at Amazon you can see how people have tried. This is definitely the collection to start with. It covers many of his fine early recordings with Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway and Billy Eckstine and offers a healthy dose of his mid-forties work. Many consider his work with Charlie Parker to be his finest and there are several gems from that era. In fact, the list of legendary performers who play along side Dizzy on this collection inlcude John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk, and Percy Heath (!). And that's not a list assembled by the compilers to show off. It's actually a fair sampling of folks he played with.

Dizzy also introduced the world to Latin jazz and the early representative recording "Manteca" is included here with "Cubana Be/Cubana Bop " and others. His later sixties recordings are absent but there are several from the seventies and beyond that well represent the later part of his career. Indeed the title is apt since this collection does an excellent job of surveying a lengthy tenure playing the trumpet. This 2-CD set also includes a gorgeous and informative booklet that will no doubt inspire further investigation of the man's work. Well done!

A great introduction to bebop's finest.......2005-07-19

Must Have collection.......2005-07-05

Dizzy Gillespie had a touch with His playing that puts Him alongside any other Mount Rushmore Worth Named Jazz Musician who has truly changed the game.Dizzy had a Incredible sonic Approach to the way He Played,Wrote&directed His band.I learned Afro Cuban music from listening to Him.He sponged&tired so many various styles of Music. in fact it could be argued that Dizzy Gillespie was a Founding Father to what has become known as World-Music. he covered so many bases&this Multi Disc Set showcases His Richness&Genius as a Musican,Band-Leader&overall Creative Force.from his Days starting out with Cab Calloway through his time with Charlie "Bird" Parker&Onward you saw a Man who was driven to try whatever He wanted¬ afraid of what people thought.He was a Musicians Musician.

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